Clay v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1989 · most notably Parsons Construction Co. v. Missouri Public Service Co. (1968), Millar v. Berg (1958)
29 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 State v. Whitsett · Bond v. Williams · State v. Scott · Greer v. Carpenter · State Ex. Rel. Ward 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be seen that there are four reasons set out in the above assignment of error, as follows: (1) The verdict is against the evidence; (2) the verdict is against the weight of the evidence; (3) the verdict is against the law under the evidence; and (4) there is no evidence to support or sustain the verdict. [11]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boswell v. Saunders
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.