Cecil v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 12 Conn. App. 570 - Dennison v. Klotz (1987), 177 W. Va. 592 - Price v. Halstead (1987)
42 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Rappaport v. Nichols · Schwartz v. Johnson · Carr v. Turner · 46 Wis. 2d 724 - Garcia v. Hargrove · Trail v. Christian
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On review of the grant of a directed verdict on motion of a defendant, it is not the office of an appellate court to weigh the evidence. Rather, it must take the strongest legitimate view of the evidence in favor of the plaintiff, indulging in all reasonable inferences in his favor, and disregarding any evidence to the contrary. The trial judge’s action may be sustained only if there is no material evidence in the record that would support a verdict for the plaintiff, under any of the theories that he has advanced.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Brown · Rose v. Welch“The elements ... area common purpose, some manner of agreement among [the several parties], and an equal right on the part of each to control both the venture as a whole and any relevant instrumentality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Liability predicated on a joint venture theory of mutual responsibility is not imposed in instances in which the parties join together purely for pleasure, but is reserved, rather, for cases in which the parties associate for business, or expense sharing, or some comparable arrangement. Cecil v. Hardin, at 575 S.W.2d 272 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Jones
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.