Stevens v. Craft’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2018
11 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 Slankard v. Thomas · Honey v. Barnes Hospital · Brazell v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · Lineberry v. Shull · McPherson v. Bi-State Development Agency
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Withdrawal instructions may be given when evidence on an issue has been received, but there is inadequate proof for submission of the issue to the jury; when there is evidence presented which might mislead the jury in its consideration of the case as pleaded and submitted; when there is evidence presented directed to an issue that is abandoned; or when there is evidence of such character that might easily raise a false issue.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Instruction No. C-The evidence of the height of Defendant's track or increases in height of Defendant's track is withdrawn from the case and you are not to consider such evidence in arriving at your verdict. Instruction No. E-The design of Defendant's track structure is withdrawn from the case and you are not to consider such evidence in arriving at your verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial court abuses its discretion when a ruling 'is clearly against the logic of the circumstances then brought before the trial court and is so unreasonable and arbitrary that the ruling shocks the sense of justice and indicates a lack of careful deliberate consideration.'”
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.