Lawson v. Clawson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Dover Elevator Co. v. Swann (1994), Nalee, Inc. v. Jacobs (1962)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 Frenkil v. Johnson · Howser v. Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad · Albert v. State ex rel. Ryan · Pindell v. Rubenstein · State v. Emerson & Morgan Coal Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““refusal was proper, inasmuch as appellee was injured under circumstances justifying an inference that his injuries would not have occurred had those persons in charge of the seating arrangements for the wrestling bout exercised ordinary care; moreover, since negligence could be presumed as a rational inference from the facts before the jurors, the instructions as offered were calculated to mislead rather than help them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ristaino v. Flannery
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.