Owens v. Felder’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably 92 So. 2d 89 - Higginbotham v. Frazier (1957), 73 So. 2d 196 - Anderson v. Morgan City Canning Co. (1954)
25 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 Wheadon v. Turregano · McMicken v. Beauchamp · Messi v. Frechede · Pipes v. Hardesty
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are reluctant to reverse the finding of a trial court based primarily on questions of fact, but in a case, such as we are presently analyzing, it is a self evident principle that it is occasionally easier to perceive fallacies and inconsistencies contained in the record by a comparison of the various portions of the transcribed record with other pertinent portions than it is to accurately observe and catalogue them while listening to the oral evidence of the various witnesses who testified during the course of the trial.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“The burden of proof rests upon a party, relying upon a written instrument, to account satisfactorily for any alterations operating as a substantial change in the effect of the instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pittman v. Robinson
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.