Chavira v. Carnahan’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maez (1982), Dahl v. Turner (1969)
6 federal appellate · 39 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 Thompson v. Anderman · Greenfield v. Bruskas · White v. Montoya · Terrel v. Lowdermilk · American Insurance Company v. Foutz and Bursum
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * *. Even though evidence may be undisputed, a judgment notwithstanding verdict is improper if different inferences may reasonably be drawn therefrom. [Citation omitted.] It is for the jury under proper instructions to determine the weight and significance of each fact in evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Proximate cause is an ultimate fact — usually an inference to be drawn by court or jury from the facts proved. It becomes á question of law only when facts regarding causation are undisputed and all reasonable inferences therefrom are plain, consistent and un-contradictory.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.