Paulsen v. McDuffie’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 1963 · most notably Garrett v. Co (1942), Garrett v. Moore-McCormack Co. (1942)
48 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Gila Valley Globe Northern Railway Company v. John Hall · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. De Atley · Smellie v. Southern Pacific Co. · Reed v. Director General of Railroads
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What he did on that occasion was entirely covered by the evidence in the case, and there was neither necessity nor reason for indulging in any presumption on that subject.””
5 later decisions 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.