Stambaugh v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado (1973), Romero v. Philip Morris Inc. (2010)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 112 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 Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Washington · Wesolowski v. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. · Colorado &. S. Ry. Co. v. Rowe · American Savings Life Insurance v. Riplinger · American Nat. Ins. Co. v. Denke
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A reasonable inference may be defined as a process of reasoning whereby, from facts admitted or established by the evidence, or from common knowledge or experience, a reasonable conclusion may be drawn that a further fact is established. * * * * * * "An inference is not a supposition or a conjecture, but is a logical deduction from facts proved * * * and guess work is not a substitute therefor."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`* * * followed by its application on assumed state of facts supported by substantial evidence from which, if believed, the jury would have been authorized to find that the * * * [collision] was caused by an unavoidable accident. * * *' Stambaugh v. Hayes, 44 N.M. 443, 447 , 103 P.2d 640, 643 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * [I]f the accident complained of could have been prevented by either party by means suggested by common prudence, it is not unavoidable. * * *”
2 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.