Scott v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 1971 · most notably Brown & Blackwood v. Ricou-Brewster Building Co. (1960), Poydras Fruit Co. v. Weinberger Banana Co. (1938)
40 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 Gibbons v. Yazoo & M. V. R. · Schwartz, Kauffman & Co. v. Baer · McCullom v. Porter · Whitehurst v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. · V. & A. Meyer & Co. v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true * * * that, where a bailee fails to return property intrusted to his care, he bears the burden primarily of showing why he has failed to do so. But, when 'he has shown that the cause was due to destruction of the bailed goods by fire, the burden again shifts to the shoulders of the bailor to show that the fire * * * was caused by the bailee’s negligence.””
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.