Mills v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Sowers v. Marley (1952), Cox v. Lee (1949)
1 district · 40 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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he physical facts present no reasonable theory to the exclusion of many others as to the circumstances under which the accident occurred. . . . The evidence is consonant with any of many theories which may be advanced with equal force, but all of which are speculative and rest on mere conjecture.”
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.