Larson v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Nass v. Nass (1949), Gonzalez v. Texas Department of Human Resources (1979)
46 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.
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.
“"You are instruction that any fact before you may be established by circumstantial evidence, direct evidence or both. A fact may be established by direct evidence when proved by witnesses who saw the act done or heard the words spoken, or by documentary evidence. A fact may be established by circumstantial evidence when the fact is fairly and reasonably inferred from other facts proved in the case."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In practically all cases some of the evidence is circumstantial. Surely a jury understands that it is its function to make reasonable inferences from proven facts, and we are unwilling to sanction a rule based upon the hypothesis that it does not."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“looseness of the use of the verbs could not have mislead the jury.”
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.