Bridgeforth v. Proffitt’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably DeWitt v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co. (1984), Goldstein v. Gontarz (1974)
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 Brunk v. Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. · Albrecht v. Herald Co. · Hildreth v. Key · Flournoy v. Gallagher · Gathright v. Pendegraft
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * # * * * “Q. The valuation that you gave the jury is $250.00? A. Yes sir. Q. . That had been used seven, eight or nine years. Is that correct? A. Yes, sir. Q. Had you attended any auctions in the neighborhood where furniture is auctioned off or sold? A. No Sir. Q. Have you priced record players in a furniture store . . ? A. Not no used furniture, no. Q. Do you have any idea as to what this record player would have sold for on the market? A. Today? Q. On April the 8th, 1970? A. Well no sir, . Q. Well what I’m talking about, what a seven or eight year old record player would have sold for that had been used on April 8th, 1970. Do you have any idea as to the market value of it? A. No sir, I do not. (emphasis added). MR. CLARK: All right, I’ll ask the Court that that ... be stricken and that the jury be instructed to disregard the valuation placed on the record player by this witness. (discussion off the record) THE COURT: All right, the objection will be overruled. You may proceed.” * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘[T]he inference drawn must be reasonable, and may not be arrived at by speculation or conjecture. But neither is the inference to be precluded by speculation or conjecture, or by a mere possibility that the contrary may be true. . Probabilities, not possibilities, are controlling. It is not required that an inference be justified beyond all doubt.’ [Citations omitted] . . . ‘the showing of circumstances must be such as indicates to reasonable minds the cause and source of the fire, not leaving it to mere conjecture or speculation, and must be sufficiently strong and complete to reasonably elimi nate the “probability” of any other source or cause.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Fair market value” is defined as “the price which property will bring when it is offered for sale by an owner who is willing but under no compulsion to sell and is bought by a buyer who is willing or desires to purchase but is not compelled to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacKey v. Goslee
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.