Sartain v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 1960 · most notably Rennie v. Red Star Oil Co. (1920), Tinney v. Crosby (1941)
41 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 Cooper v. Flesner · Neeley v. Southwestern Cotton Seed Oil Co. · Ziska v. Ziska · Jansen v. City of Atchison · Harris v. Misssouri, K. & T. Ry. Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Court may direct verdict where facts undisputed or of such conclusive character that court in sound judicial discretion would be compelled to set aside verdict returned in opposition to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pickens v. Pittman
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.