Lappin v. Prebe’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Branstetter v. Gerdeman (1955), Burr v. Singh (1951)
1 federal appellate · 58 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 Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain · McGrath v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Burge v. Wabash Railroad · Southern Ry Co v. Walters · Grindstaff v. J. Goldberg & Sons Structural Steel Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]acts necessary to sustain a recovery in a civil case may be proven by circumstantial evidence, but the facts and circumstances proven must be such that the necessary facts to support a verdict may be inferred and must reasonably follow. Such evidence must exclude guesswork, conjecture, and speculation as to the existence of the necessary facts.”
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.