Lane v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Maines (1981), Bridges v. Graham (1957)
69 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 Cox v. Hennis Freight Lines · Sowers v. Marley · Springs v. . Doll · Whitson v. Frances · Etheridge v. . Etheridge
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A basic requirement of circumstantial evidence is reasonable inference from established facts. Inference may not be based on inference. Every inference must stand upon some clear and direct evidence, and not upon some other inference or presumption. [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Wilson · State v. Byrd“Cases cannot be submitted to a jury on speculations, guesses or conjectures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A cause of action must be something more than a guess.”
2 later decisions 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.