Spaulding v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1966 · most notably Fimple v. Archer Ballroom Co. (1949), Bell v. Crook (1959)
29 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 Roberts v. Carlson · Grantham v. Watson Bros. Transportation · Bergendahl v. Rabeler · Halliday v. Raymond · Stoffel v. Metcalfe Construction 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`If the defendant pleads that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence, or that the accident resulted solely from his negligence, the burden is upon the defendant to prove those defenses, and does not shift during the trial of the case, but he should receive the benefit of the plaintiff's evidence tending to prove those issues.' McGahey v. Citizens Ry. Co., 88 Neb. 218 , 129 N.W. 293 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mundy v. Davis
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.