Vasquez v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2012
10 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 DeWald v. State · Downen v. Sinclair Oil Corp. · Parker v. Artery · Bigley v. Craven · Daily v. Bone
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]n appeal, the Supreme Court assumes that evidence in favor of the successful party is true, leaves out of consideration entirely the conflicting evidence presented by the unsuccessful party, and gives the evidence of the successful party every favorable inference that may reasonably and fairly be drawn from it. Furthermore, a reviewing court cannot substitute its judgment of the facts for that of the trial court unless the trial court’s judgment is clearly erroneous or contrary to the great weight of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a plaintiff has the burden of proving all four of these elements before negligence can be found ... [and] negligence and proximate cause are never presumed from the happening of an accident, and mere conjecture cannot form the basis of liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collings v. Lords
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.