Evans v. Farmers Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Stokes v. Wabash Railroad Co. (1946), Strahler v. St. Luke's Hospital (1986)
39 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 Banks v. Morris Company · Smithers v. Barker · Buehler v. Festus Mercantile Co. · Perkins v. Terminal Railroad Assn. · Davidson v. St. Louis Transit 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The loss of earning capacity in a minor during minority is a loss to his parents who are entitled to both his services and his earnings.”
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.