Wallace v. Parnell’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1959
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blumb v. Getz · Thomas v. Buchanan · Greene v. Noonan · South Chicago City Railway Co. v. Dufresne · Kirchoff v. Van Scoy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the evidence is conflicting and the case is a close one on the facts, great care should be taken in properly instructing the jury, and the failure so to do constitutes reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.