Funk v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1983 · most notably 76 Ill. App. 3d 479 - Newton v. Meissner (1979), Rezapolvi v. First National Bank (1983)
37 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedFunk v. Babbitt
Relationships
Relies on Consolidated Coal Co. v. Haenni · Watt v. Kirby · Walsh v. Lennon · Anderson v. Jacobson · Parmelee v. Austin
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test is not what the ingenuity of counsel can at leisure work out the instructions to mean, but how and in what sense under the evidence before them and the circumstances of the trial would ordinary men and jurors understand the instructions.””
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.