Cluck v. Abe’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
217 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably State Ex Rel. Edie v. Shain (1941), Rogers v. Thompson (1954)
217 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 Gannon v. Laclede Gas Light Co. · Chawkley v. Wabash Railway Co. · Ford v. Wabash Railway Co. · Schroeder v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · State Ex Rel. Missouri Gas & Electric Service Co. v. Trimble
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case where the allegations of the petition are denied by the answer, and the plaintiff offers oral evidence tending to support the allegations of the petition, the defendant is entitled to have the jury pass upon the credibility of such evidence even though he should offer no evidence himself. The court has no right to tell the jury that it must believe the witnesses. The jury, in the first instance, is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and of the weight and value of their evidence, and may believe or disbelieve the testimony of any one or all of the witnesses, though such evidence be uncontradicted and unimpeached.”
7 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.