Long v. Lincoln’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Trenton Trust Co. v. Western Surety Co. (1980), Roth v. Roth (1978)
32 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 Pittman v. Great American Life Insurance Co. · Freshour v. Schuerenberg · Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Crown Insurance Co. · M & a Electric Power Cooperative v. Nesselrodt · Associates Discount Corp. of Iowa v. Fitzwater
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘heed the well fixed principle that in court tried cases where the evidence conflicts sharply, appellate courts resolve the conflict by according due deference to the trial court because of its superior opportunity “to observe the conduct and demeanor of the parties and their witnesses and to weigh, evaluate and assess their testimony” ’ [Pittman v. Great American Life Insurance Co., 512 S.W.2d 857, 861-862 [7] (Mo.App.1974)], and because the trial judge has leave to disbelieve all the testimony of any witness [Southwestern Bell Tel. Co. v. Crown Insurance Co., 416 S.W.2d 705, 711 [6] (Mo.App.1967)] or to believe part of a witness’ testimony and reject the rest. North Side Finance Co. v. Sparr, 78 S.W.2d 892 , 894[4] (Mo.App.1935).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roth v. Roth
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.