Callender v. Cockrell’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wilburn v. Gordon · Bradshaw v. STIEFFEL · Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. v. Aultman · 193 So. 2d 717 - Shaw v. Phillips
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Ordinarily, a plaintiff is bound by his own testimony as to facts of which he professes direct knowledge, and may not recover upon the basis of evidence of another witness or other witnesses who give directly opposing evidence. Bradshaw v. Stieffel, 230 Miss. 361 , 92 So.2d 565 (1957)." (Emphasis added) 217 So.2d at 647 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vise v. Vise“There is not a scintilla of evidence capable of supporting a finding that Mrs. Callender's negligence in failing to give a signal of her ultimate intention to turn right was a proximate contributing cause of the collision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vise v. Vise
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.