Rutherford v. Penn. Mut. Life Ins.’s Empirical Analysis
1 F. 456 · 1880
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1911
5 federal appellate ·
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 Brockett v. Brockett · Green v. Van Buskirk · Kitchen v. Randolph · Sage v. Central Rr Co. of Iowa · Telegraph Company v. Eyser
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This section still further provides for motions of this character (namely, to secure a reconsideration by the trial court of questions which had arisen in the course of trial), raid it applies to the case where a party is not prepared at the time of trial to immediately file his motion. It provides for giving time within which that may he done. « • * This (section) provides for a case where lie (the party) desires to obtain from the court an extension (¡f the usual time within which to make his application for a new trial; and in that case * * * he must show that lie has presented his petition, and that it has been allowed in accordance with the provisions of the sect ion; but if he makes his motion for a new trial without asking for the time, then he can make it independent of section 987, and is not bound by the provisions of that section. In other words, the court had a perfect right to entertain the motion for a new trial; it did entertain it, and suspended the execution until it should he determined.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanborn v. Bay
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.