Sparks v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1994
1 federal appellate · 8 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts [must] be established by evidence with that absolute certainty ... that excludes all reasonable doubt of their existence, as if it were a case of murder or treason, [this] is not a rule applicable to this or any other civil cause.”
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.