White v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1950
11 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 Moore v. First Nat. Bank of Iowa City · Abbott v. Dingus · Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. v. Owens · Hubbard Banking Co. v. Koetsch
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the evidence in support of a defense in an action consists only of the testimony of the interested defendants, and the physical facts and circumstances and the testimony of such witnesses, if true, fully sustains such defense and is positive, undenied, and uncontradicted, it is not error for the trial court to direct a verdict for defendants, unless the physical facts and the circumstances surrounding the transaction tend to contradict the positive testimony, or the positive testimony is inherently improbable, in which case the question is one for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Saylor
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.