Douglas v. Twenter’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably Shepard v. Harris (1959), Krug v. Sterling Drug, Inc. (1967)
47 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 Knight Ex Rel. Knight v. Richey · Buehler v. Festus Mercantile Co. · Yates v. Manchester · Long v. Mild · Wilcox v. Coons
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the ultimate facts to be proved by plaintiff was the truck’s speed at the time of the collision. We are of the opinion that the testimony of these five witnesses was legally relevant, i. e., material on the ultimate issue of speed at the time of the collision." Id. (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““But the absence of continuous visual observation for a certain distance does not necessarily make prior speed testimony inadmissible. Our instant ruling is in harmony with the principle of the Long case.” 259 S.W.2d at 358 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stapleton v. Griewe
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.