Poll v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1969 · most notably Dossenbach v. Reidhar's Ex'x (1932), Illinois Central Railroad v. Cash's Administratrix (1927)
31 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 Louisville Gas Co. v. Kaufman, Straus & Co. · Southern Ry. v. Goddard · Hughes v. Cincinnati, &c., Railroad · Crump v. Chenault · Caldwell's Administrator v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The scintilla rule has never been given the effect of furnishing or supplying proof when there is none. Neither -can it be permitted, nor was it intended by the law, through it, to elevate a mere chimerical probability to the dignity of proof.””
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.