16 E.H. Smith 569 - Hull v. . Littauer’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently January 1987 · most notably Chesapeake Ry Co v. Martin (1931), Ferdinand v. Agricultural Ins. Co. of Watertown, NY (1956)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 126 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 Lomer v. . Meeker · Kelly v. . Burroughs
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, the credibility of a witness, who is a party to the action, and therefore interested in its result, is for the jury; but this rule, being founded in reason, is not an absolute and inflexible one. * * * Where, however, the evidence of a party to the action is not contradicted by direct evidence, nor by any legitimate inferences from the evidence, and it is not opposed to the probabilities, nor, in its nature,' surprising or suspicious, there is no reason for denying to it conclusiveness.””
3 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.