Smith v. McEachin’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Powers v. Continental Casualty Co. (1962), Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society v. Reese (1943)
5 federal appellate · 33 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 L. R., M. R. & T. Ry. Co. v. Leverett · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Smith · Arnold v. Doniphan Lumber Co. · Williamson Williams v. Cates
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a rule .of universal application that, where the testimony is undisputed and from it all reasonable minds must draw the same conclusion of fact, it is the duty of the court to declare as a matter of law the conclusion to be reached; but, where there is any substantial evidence to support the verdict, the question must be submitted to the jury. In testing whether or not there is any substantial evidence in a given case, the evidence and all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom should be viewed in tlie light most favorable to the party against whom the verdict is directed, and if there is any conflict in the evidence, or where the evidence is not in dispute but is in such a state that fair-minded men might draw1- different conclusions therefrom, it is error to direct a verdict.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.