Benedict v. Marks Shows, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1987
1 district · 5 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury could infer from the testimony that he had left the truck in gear and that it was through his negligence in cranking it while so that the plaintiff was injured. In short, as more than one inference could be drawn from the evidence, the court properly refused to grant a nonsuit or to direct a verdict on these grounds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rienecker v. Lampman
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.