Houck v. Hult’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1978
21 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 Buboltz v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. · Churchill & Alden Co. v. Ramsey · Houck v. Hult · Houck v. Hult · Agnew v. Agnew
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not the function of this court to place itself in the position of the trial court to determine the credibility of witnesses and the weight to be attached to their testimony and to exercise independent judgment as to whether it would have made the same or similar fact determination. It was with the trial court, as the trier of questions of fact, to accept as true or reject as untrue testimony given before it, and, the credibility of witnesses having entered into the findings, this court will not disturb such findings, unless the evidence clearly preponderates against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Hofer
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.