Lowden v. Denton’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.2d 274 · 1940
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1975
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Kelly v. Manhattan Railway Co. · Hyer v. City of Janesville · Williams v. . City of New York · Massachusetts Protective Ass'n v. Mouber · Duncan v. Montgomery Ward & Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a motion for a directed verdict made at the close of all the evidence is denied or for any reason is not granted, the court is deemed to have submitted the action to the jury subject to a later determination of the legal questions raised by the motion. Fed.R.Civ.P. 50(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bogard v. Cook“new trial or direct the entry of judgment as if the requested verdict' had. been -directed. If no verdict was returned the court may direct the entry of judgment as if the requested verdict had been directed or may order .a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.