Michel v. Efferson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Breaux v. Laird (1956), Union Oil Company of California v. Touchet (1956)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Utley v. Donaldson · Champion Spark Plug Co. v. Automobile Sundries Co. · Pratt v. McCoy · Moser v. Moser
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defense of waiver is a special one and the burden of proof is on the defendants to show that the plaintiff had knowledge of the defects in construction and that she intentionally waived same.”
7 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.