Colwell v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1992
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Alamo v. Del Rosario · 16 Cal. 2d 80 - Gibson v. County of Mendocino · Holland v. Morgan & Peacock Properties Co. · SCHOOL DIST. 32 IN CO. OF FREMONT v. Wempen · McClure v. Latta
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Accordingly, a witness who observed the moving object in question will be permitted to estimate its speed if he possesses some knowledge or experience, however slight, which will enable him to form an opinion. The qualification of the witness to judge accurately goes to the weight which the jury may give his testimony rather than to its competency. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Potts v. Brown“assume every finding was made which was necessary to sustain the verdict * * * provided only there was substantial evidence which would justify such finding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. McMahon
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.