Stegall v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 1983 · most notably Dunlap v. Lee (1962), Greene v. Nichols (1968)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 Aldridge Ex Rel. Aldridge v. Hasty · Sowers v. Marley · Bridges v. Graham · Powers v. S. Sternberg & Co. · Parker v. Wilson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inferences as to who was driving the automobile at the time of the wreck cannot rest on conjecture and surmise. Parker v. Wilson, 247 N.C. 47 , 100 S.E. 2d 258 ; Sowers v. Marley, 235 N.C. 607 , 70 S.E. 2d 670 . The inferences permitted by the rule are logical inferences reasonably sustained by the evidence, when considered in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Whitson v. Frances, 240 N.C. 733 , 83 S.E. 2d 879 . To make out this phase of the case plaintiff must offer evidence sufficient to take the question of whether defendant’s intestate was driving the automobile at the critical moment out of the realm of conjecture and into the field of legitimate inference from established facts. Parker v. Wilson, supra.” Stegall v. Sledge, 247 N.C. 718 , 102 S.E. 2d 115 (1958).”
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.