Page v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably A.H. v. Rockingham Publishing Co. (1998), Lambert v. Downtown Garage, Inc. (2001)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Rice v. Turner · Town of West Point v. Evans · Mason & Dixon Lines, Inc. v. United States Casualty Co. · Wilkins v. Sibley · Barnette v. Dickens
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“burden is upon plaintiff to produce evidence of preponderating weight from which the trier of fact can find that the defendant[ ][was] guilty of negligence which was a proximate cause of the event resulting in injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Proof of 'possibility' that a fact exists is not enough to take the issue out of the sphere of pure conjecture and rank speculation into the realm of legitimate inference, sufficient for a jury to be permitted to consider the question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.