St. Clair v. McAlister’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2009
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 Scarborough v. Urgo · Connor v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · McCurrie v. Southern Pacific Co. · Osgood v. Los Angeles Traction Co. · 90 Cal. App. 555 - Kilgore v. Brown
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.
““ ‘Such a presumption is evidence in the case, but it has no greater or different effect than the testimony of witnesses, and in no degree changes the rule as to the burden of proof, viz., the burden of producing a preponderance of evidence.’ ” (Italics added.)”
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.