Druse v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1940 · most notably Gault v. Stormont (1883), Michigan Pipe Co. v. Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance (1892)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And when all the evidence upon the point on both sides tends clearly to prove, and if true does prove, a fact, and there is none to' cast a doubt upon it, such fact may, and generally should, be assumed as proved; and the jury should be told that there is no evidence from which they can find against the fact as proved. And under such a state of proofs, a charge which, in effect, tells the jury that it is competent for them to find either way,—for or against the existence of the fact so proved,—is erroneous, as it assumes that there is evidence in the case tending as well to disprove ,such fact as to prove it.””
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.