Clawson v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1941
13 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 Citizens Telephone Co. v. Prickett · Conner v. Citizens Street Railway Co. · Conner v. Citizens' Street Railroad · Avery v. Nordyke & Marmon Co. · Phœnix Insurance v. Rowe
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To answer interrogatory No. 5, the jury was required to state whether or not appellee was at the time in the exercise of reasonable and ordinary care. The law fixes the standard by which ‘reasonable care’ or ‘ordinary care’ must be determined. Jurors are not presumed to know this standard, and the court has no means of knowing whether in reaching the conclusion indicated by the answer that the jury applied the correct legal standard or not. We hold that an answer to the interrogatory in question necessarily involves a question of law, and that the jury’s answer is a conclusion which must be disregarded in the consideration of the motion for judgment bn the answers to the interrogatories notwithstanding the general verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An ultimate fact which may be found by the jury is one which can reasonably be inferred from the facts found, without applying to the facts any legal principle, or measuring them by any legal standard.””
1 later decision 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.