Hance v. Straatsma’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2019
23 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 Terminal Freight Handling Co. v. Solien · LP v. Natrona County Department of Public Assistance & Social Services · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · Mobil Coal Producing, Inc. v. Parks · Reno Livestock Corp. v. Sun Oil Co.(Delaware)
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our rule is that where the sufficiency of evidence is an issue we uphold the judgment if there is evidence to support it, and in so doing we look only to the evidence submitted by the prevailing party and give to it every favorable inference which may be drawn therefrom, without considering any contrary evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is not the function of this court to frame appellant's argument or draw his issues for him. This court consistently has refused to consider positions which are not supported by cogent argument or pertinent authority. We are not required to consider on appeal grounds which were neither presented to * * * nor passed upon [by the trial court].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Saldana v. State · Smith v. Ensley“unable to discern whether Hance challenge[d] the sufficiency of the evidence to support the judgment or the county court's failure to find that he was not liable under the warranty, or both,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MSC v. MCG
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.