Esry v. Carden’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Jones v. State (1999), Union Pacific Railroad v. Sharp (1997)
50 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 Hubbard v. State · Younts v. Baldor Elec. Co. Inc. · Minerva Enterprises, Inc. v. Howlett · Mikel v. Hubbard · Rathbun v. Ward
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of sufficient force and character to compel a conclusion one way or the other with reasonable certainty; it must force the mind to pass beyond suspicion or conjecture.”
3 later decisions 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.