Oldfield v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1970
8 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 Huber & Huber Motor Express v. Martin's Adm'r · Towles v. Perkins · Dorman v. Bays
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sole question about which it can be said there is a shadow of a doubt is the ownership of the truck causing the injury. The law does not require that every fact and circumstance going to make up a case be proved by direct, positive testimony. The fact in issue may be established by circumstantial evidence. Here the proven circumstances warranted the inference that the truck which collided with appel-lee’s car was owned by appellant.” Id. 165 S.W.2d 954 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carpenter v. Haydon
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.