Brewer v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Trevino v. Ortega (1998), Coleman v. Eddy Potash, Inc. (1995)
1 district · 33 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 Taylor v. United States · Mobil Chemical Company v. Bell · Texaco, Inc. v. Pennzoil, Co. · Smith v. Superior Court · Lowenfield v. Butler, Warden
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You are instructed that if there is evidence that is pertinent to the issues in this cause, which was in the exclusive possession and control of a party and which cannot be produced, and its disappearance or non-production has not been satisfactorily explained, then you may consider that such evidence contained information adverse to the position taken by the party who was in the possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.