Culver v. Sekulich’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably McClellan v. Tottenhoff (1983), Ford Motor Company v. Arguello (1963)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Peterson v. McMicken · Johnson v. Hanover Fire Insurance · Miracle v. Barker Et Ux. · Crosby v. Portland Ry. Co. · Wilhelm v. Cukr
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is the function of an appellate court to ascertain whether or not there was substantial evidence upon which the trier of fact could base its opinion if it believed the testimony. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“duty of exercising care to protect another person against injury may either have existed at common law or be imposed by statute.”
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.