Bishop v. Huffman’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1973
20 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 Hogan v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · Bishop v. Huffman · Mathis v. Public School District No. 103 · Haney v. Canfield · Webb v. City of Oswego
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is common knowledge that persons of equal intelligence, sincerity and impartiality frequently draw wholly different inferences from the same identical facts. This is not only true of jurors; the same thing is equally true of judges. * * * One juror may believe the inferences to be drawn from identical facts disclose negligence. Another may believe precisely the opposite. * * * ””
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.