Durrett v. Petritsis’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Duke City Lumber Company, Inc. v. Terrel (1975), Foster v. Turley (1986)
6 federal appellate · 52 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 Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company · Sauter v. St. Michael's College · Brown v. Cobb · Wilson v. Employment Security Commission · Hudson v. Otero
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts are to be viewed in the aspect most favorable to the prevailing party”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“indulge all reasonable inferences in support of the verdicts, disregarding all inferences or evidence to the contrary. It is for the jury, not us, '[to] weigh the testimony, determine the credibility of witnesses, reconcile inconsistent or contradictory statements of a witness, and say where the truth lies.”
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.