Degroot v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Kirkman (2007), Sim v. Weeks (1935)
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 Fellows-Kimbrough v. Chicago City Railway Co. · De Haan v. Winter · People v. Hare · Hitchcock v. Burgett · Jones v. President of Portland
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.
“* * * when a result could have been occasioned by one of two or more causes, the ultimate fact of which cause occasioned the result is for determination by the jury, and a medical expert may not, in case of conflicting evidence, invade the province of the jury and testify that the result was in fact occasioned by one cause only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“POTTER and SHARPE, JJ., concurred with WEADOCK, J.”
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.