Beevers v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably W. M. Bashlin Co. v. Smith (1982), Hill v. State (1972)
34 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 St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Co. v. Crabtree · Southern Farmers Assn., Inc. v. Wyatt · Western Coal & Mining Co. v. Burns · American Insurance v. Haynie · Manila School Dist. No. 15 v. Sanders
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if the court's general instructions could be said technically to have covered the matter in a general way, it is error to refuse to give a specific instruction correctly ... unless it appears that prejudice has not resulted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nothing in the transcript reflects that this was the case. Appellee relies on language in the objection which indicates that appellee’s counsel had argued the case to the jury at the time the objection was made. This objection was not contained in the original transcript but supplied in a supplement to the original transcript. . . Neither the original nor the supplement shows when the objection was made. . . . It is suggested that the court was aware of the objection but requested that appellant wait until the jury was deliberating to put the specific language of the objection into the reporter’s record. It is well known among the bench and bar that this is a common practice designed to expedite the trial by diminishing the time jurors must wait for instructions to be settled, prepared in written form and given. In the absence of a specific objection by counsel, which does not appear here, we find no waiver on the part of appellant’s counsel under such circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the negligent acts or omissions of two or more persons work together as proximate causes of damage to another, each of those persons may be found to be liable. This is true regardless of the relative degree of fault between them. If you find that negligence of the defendant proximately caused damage to the plaintiff, it is not a defense that some other person may also have been to blame.”
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.