Carson v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Knox v. Weathers (1953), Mueller v. Schien (1943)
55 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 Annin v. Jackson · Nelson v. Evans · Stanich v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Swain v. Anders · Shields v. Keller
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the settled rule that an instruction purporting to cover the whole case and authorize a verdict should require the finding of all the facts necessary to sustain the verdict. Negligence being usually a question for the jury, an instruction should set out the facts, supported by the evidence, relied on to show the acts of negligence so the jury may determine whether or not the commission of such acts was negligence. * * * Accordingly, plaintiff’s instruction is erroneous for the reason it fails to hypothesize the facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule is widely recognized that an appellant will not be heard to complain of an error or omission in respondent's instruction which is common to his own instruction or when his own exhibits the same fault.”
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.