Lutner v. Shoffner’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1952
6 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 Mangum Electric Co. v. Border · House v. Gragg · Spencer v. Hamilton · McAlester - Edwards Coal Co. v. Stephenson · Harbison v. White
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.
““It is a well-settled rule in this state that evidence is sufficient to sustain a judgment if there is any evidence whatsoever reasonably tending to prove either directly or immediately, or by permissive inference, the essential facts.””
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.