Clanton v. Chrisman’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1973
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Harris v. Misssouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. · St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Davis · Littlejohn v. Midland Valley R. Co. · Menten v. Richards · Swift v. McMurray
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be seen from the. foregoing that the court gave to the jury the contention of the .plaintiff, and instructed that, if the jury, believed that .state of facts had been sufficiently proved, the verdict should be for the plaintiff. Undoubtedly, the court should have further instructed the jury that it must believe the things enumerated constituted negligence, and that such negligence was the proximate cause of injury to the plaintiff.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Squyres v. Klick · Warren v. Layman
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.