Devore v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Oesterle v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. · Mann v. Des Moines Railway Co. · Pierce v. Heusinkveld · State v. Beckwith · Wright v. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana)
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is clearly explained that the rule permitting a doctor to testify as to the history of the case is an exception to the hearsay rule based on “a probability that the patient will not falsify in statements made to his physician at a time when he is expecting and hoping to receive from him medical aid and benefit.” [quoting Mitchell v. Montgomery Ward & Co., 226 Iowa 956 , 285 N.W. 187, 188 (1939) ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““As used in connection with the operation of a motor vehicle it has no technical legal significance. Its meaning depends on the context. Here, as applied to defendant, it could only mean care to discover whether plaintiff was in a place of safety from possible injury by the contemplated movement of the truck and trailer.””
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.