Lawrence v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2006
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Town of West Point v. Evans · Sneed v. Sneed · Cooper v. Whiting Oil Co., Inc.
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.
“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.”
5 later decisions 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.