Schneider v. Maney’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1989
16 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 Swinhart v. St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co. · Vaughn v. Haden
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the party who has not the general burden of proof possesses positive and complete knowledge concerning the existence of facts which the party having that burden is called upon to negative, or where for any reason the evidence to prove a fact is chiefly, if not entirely, within the control of the adverse party .. . the burden of evidence is on the party who knows, or has special opportunity for knowing, the fact .. . although he is obligated to go no farther than necessity requires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Monnig
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.