Pittman v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably Hunt v. Ward (1955), Craft v. Koonce (1939)
43 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 Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Fox · Travis v. L. & N. R. R. · Alaga Coach Line, Inc. v. McCarroll · Brandon v. Progress Distilling Co. · Sheffield Co. v. Morton
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Deal’s company had liability insurance on the car which struck the plaintiff, and the witness had interested himself about the case, and it was permissible to show that Deal represented the company, as tending to establish bias on the part of the witness, a fact always permissible to be shown in order that the jury may properly weigh the testimony of such witness. [Citing cases.]””
1 later decision 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.