Troll v. Ehrler Drayage Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1935
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligence is ordinarily a question for the jury. It is always so when the evidence on material points is conflicting, or where the facts being undisputed different minds might reasonably draw different conclusions from them. . . . If the inferences to be drawn from the evidence are not certain or incontrovertible, the question of negligence cannot be passed upon by the court.”
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.