Ewen v. Bloch’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1986
4 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 Naquin v. Marquette Casualty Company · Day v. National US Radiator Corporation · Perkins v. Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company · Prescott v. Central Contracting Co. · Castille v. Cormier
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisprudence of this state is well established to the effect that to fulfill his obligation of proving causal connection between damages sustained and defendant’s alleged negligence, plaintiff must produce evidence which excludes, with a fair amount of certainty, every other reasonable hypothesis excepting the one relied on by the plaintiff.””
1 later decision 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.