Howard v. Marchildon’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2024
17 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 Moore v. Kujath · Moeller v. St. Paul City Railway Co. · 22 Tenn. App. 607 - Long v. Tomlin · Ransford v. Ainsworth · Barrett v. Nash Finch Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party having the burden of proof with respect to a particular issue fails to sustain such burden, decision as to such issue must go against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Curtis
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.