Stroud v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 1976 · most notably Starks Food Markets, Inc. v. El Dorado Refining Co. (1943), Emigh v. Andrews (1948)
4 federal appellate · 51 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 Mayes v. Kansas City Power & Light Co. · Zinn ex rel. Zinn v. Updegraff · Brown v. Union Pacific Railroad · St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Burrows · Potter v. Rorabaugh-Wiley Dry Goods 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . But such a showing is not sufficient where the evidence offered suggests with equal force that the injuries might have resulted without fault of the defendant. . . .’ (p. 76.)” (p. 344.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the thing which caused the injury complained of is shown to be under the management of defendant or his servants and the accident is such as in the ordinary' course of things does not happen if those who have its management or control use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded with instructions to sustain defendant’s demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence.” (p. 78.)”
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.