Elek v. Boyce’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Doremus Ex Rel. Rentz v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Murray v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Bagwell v. McLellan Stores Co. · State v. McDaniel · Marks v. I. M. Pearlstine & Sons
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he opinion of a witness is not admissible where all the facts are capable of being clearly detailed so that the jury may form the correct conclusions therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Virts v. Bailey
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.