Snyder v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
January 1968
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Starks Food Markets, Inc. v. El Dorado Refining Co. · Mayes v. Kansas City Power & Light Co. · Hendren ex rel. Hendren v. Snyder · Crowe v. Moore · Kinderknecht v. Hensley
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The circumstances relied on must be of such nature and so related one to the other that the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn is the theory sought to be established; that a fact is not proven hy circumstances merely consistent with its existence, and that a finding of negligence must be established by competent proof and cannot rest on mere conjecture.””
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.