Kincade v. Mikles’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.2d 784 · 1944
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Bell v. United States (1950), United States v. Bender (1955)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Ramsouer v. Midland Valley R. · Rogers v. Penobscot Mining Co. · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Peterson · Moyer v. Ætna Life Ins. · Wayne v. New York Life Ins.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the contention that the evidence is unworthy of belief, it need only be said that it was the function of the trial court to pass upon the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffin v. Comm'r““Any fact, even the commission of a felony, may be established by circumstantial evidence and negligence may be so established. (Citing cases.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.