Winfield v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 1971 · most notably Carson v. Doggett (1950), Chambers Ex Rel. Chambers v. Allen (1951)
58 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 Lavender v. Kurn · Bundy v. . Powell · Godwin v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Tyson v. . Ford · Conley Ex Rel. Conley v. Pearce-Young-Angel 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the settled rule in this jurisdiction that judgment of nonsuit on this ground can be rendered only when a single inference, leading to that conclusion, can be drawn from the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.