Fort Smith Gas Co. v. Cloud’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.2d 413 · 1935
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1987
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company v. Samuel Calhoun · Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Deselms · Richmond Co v. Elliott · Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. v. De Parcq
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . it is well settled that where proven facts give equal support to each of two inconsistent inferences, judgment must go against the party upon whom rests the burden of sustaining one of these inferences as against the other. [ 75 F.2d at 416 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.