Lee v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Gillikin v. Burbage (1965), Crinkley v. Holiday Inns, Inc. (1988)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Lane v. Bryan · Byrd v. Express Co. · Poovey v. International Sugar Feed No. Two Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[j]udges are [not] required to submit a case to the jury merely because some evidence has been introduced by the party having the burden of proof, unless the evidence [is] of such a character as [to] warrant the jury to proceed in finding a verdict in favor of the party introducing such evidence.””
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.