Powell v. Gary’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably Tyus v. Apalachicola Northern Railroad Company (1961), 56 So. 2d 905 - Poindexter v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co. (1951)
44 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. Myrick · Warfield v. Hepburn · A. C. L. R. R. Co. v. Watkins · Covington v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. · Powell v. Jackson Grain 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * When negative testimony is relied upon to contradict positive evidence, it should appear that the negative statements were made by persons whose attention was directed to the fact that they were looking, watching, and listening for the fact. Not only that the opportunity for observing the fact existed, but that their attention was directed to the fact. * * *"”
2 later decisions 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.