Rowland v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2019
3 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 Tyus v. Apalachicola Northern Railroad Company · 2 Ariz. App. 607 - Shetter v. Rochelle · 68 So. 2d 604 - Beverly Beach Properties v. Nelson · 6 Ariz. App. 342 - City of Glendale v. Skok · Webb Fur. Co. Inc. v. Everett
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a cause is reversed for lack of evidence, a new trial cannot be awarded on the theory that some additional evidence might have been available at the former trial and will be presented on retrial, or that some such evidence may be found and will be presented on retrial, and that in either event there may be a different result upon the retrial. [Emphasis in original] Absent very limited exceptions which do not appear in this case, we indulge a conclusive presumption that the litigants have presented all available, competent, and material evidence supporting their cause; and failure to do so is at their election and risk. Any other rule would only lead to chaos. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was no evidence left to support a judgment for the plaintiff”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a judgment for a plaintiff solely for lack of evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.