Watterson v. Conwell’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Parrish v. Spink (1969), Williams v. Palmer (1964)
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 Carraway v. Graham · Moore v. Smith · McKinnon v. Polk · Stowers v. Dwight Mfg. Co. · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Rogers
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * evidence which affords nothing more than mere speculation, conjecture or guess is not sufficient to warrant submission of the question of negligence to the jury. (Citation Omitted) . “And that where evidence is equally consistent with either the existence or nonexistence of negligence, the issue should not be submitted to the jury, and that the party who affirms negligence has under such circumstances failed to establish it. (Citations Omitted)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mere fact that the . . . orderly, when he took over the wrapping of the cast, twisted and hurt plaintiff's leg . . . does not permit a reasonable inference of culpability on the part of Dr. Conwell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holt v. Godsil
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.