Sowers v. Marley’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Vestal (1971), Lane v. Bryan (1957)
3 federal appellate · 71 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 Tysinger v. Coble Dairy Products · Mitchell v. . Melts · Smith v. . Duke University · Rollison v. Hicks · Mills v. Moore
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden was upon plaintiff to produce evidence, either direct or circumstantial, sufficient to establish the two essential elements of actionable negligence, namely: (1) that defendant was guilty of a negligent act or omission; and (2) that such act or omission proximately caused his injury.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An inference of negligence cannot rest on conjecture or surmise.” Sowers v. Marley, 235 N.C. 607 , 70 S.E. 2d 670 .”
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.