Streeter v. Dowell’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1947
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.
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.
““It is the policy of this court, evidenced by a long line of decisions, to sustain the findings of a jury, especially when passed upon and approved by the trial court, if there is any proper evidence that fairly tends to sustain such findings; but where the evidence to sustain such findings grows out of a conversation that is so disconnected, uncertain, incomplete and shadowy that it is questionable whether it rises to the dignity of evidence at all, we think the exception, and not the rule, should govern.””
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.