Rutherford v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2008
16 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 Kirby v. Tallmadge · Johnson v. Marx Levy & Bro. · Sparkman Hardwood Lumber Co. v. Bush · Lynch v. Stephens · Ramey v. Fletcher
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure to produce evidence within the party's control raises the presumption that if produced, it would operate against him, and every intendment will be in favor of the opposite party.”
1 later decision 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.