Wright v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Smith v. Yohe (1963), Roussalis v. Wyoming Medical Center, Inc. (2000)
4 federal appellate · 49 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 Perkins v. Trueblood · Loudon v. Scott · McGraw v. Kerr · Hesler v. California Hospital Co. · 29 Cal. App. 321 - Houghton v. Dickson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With reference to the subject in the case at bar, we think it cannot be said to have been practically impossible for the plaintiff to show whether or not an X-ray apparatus was available for the defendant’s use prior to the time when it was used. Hence the reason for the application of such a rule of inference or presumption as now contended for is absent here. The fact of availability, if it existed, might have been established, and seemingly without _ difficulty, leaving no reasonable ground for the application of the rule of inference with respect to the subject under consideration.” (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Guess-work cannot be substituted for evidence or inference, for ‘an inference is the conclusion drawn on reason from premises established by proof. In a sense, it is the thing proved. Guess-work is not.’ Whitehouse V. Bolster, 95 Me. 458 , 50 A. 240 .””
1 later decision 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.