United States Fire Insurance v. Milner Hotels, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 542 · 1958
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Spink v. Mourton (1962), Schultz & Lindsay Construction Co. v. Erickson (1965)
12 federal appellate · 13 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 Elzig v. Gudwangen · Froh v. Hein · Geier v. Tjaden
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.
“Thus, no matter how strong the evidence of a party, who has the burden of establishing negligence and proximate cause as facts, may comparatively seem to be, he is not entitled to have those facts declared to have reality as a matter of law, unless there is utterly no rational basis in the situation, testimonially, circumstantially, or inferentially, for a jury to believe otherwise.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greene v. Werven · Steel v. Downs
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.