Western States Oil & Land Co. v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1952
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Prowant v. Sealy · Strange v. Hicks · Anthis v. Sullivan Oil & Gas Co. · Hunter v. Hughes · Withington v. Gypsy Oil Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, the question presented on appeal is, admitting the truth of all the evidence of the plaintiff, together with' such inferences and conclusions as may reasonably be drawn therefrom, eliminating all evidence of defendant in conflict with plaintiff’s evidence, and all opposing inferences, whether there is , any competent evidence tending to support the verdict against,defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.