Evans v. Teche Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.2d 933 · 1940
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1988
12 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 Gunning v. Cooley · Atchison Ry Co v. Toops
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well established rule in the courts of the United States that where the evidence is so overwhelmingly on one side as to leave no room for doubt as to what the facts are, the court should give a peremptory instruction to the jury. Atchison, Topeka, etc. R. Co. v. Toops, 281 U.S. 351 , 50 S.Ct. 281, 74 L.Ed. 896; Gunning v. Cooley, 281 U.S. 90 , 50 S.Ct. 231, 74 L.Ed. 720.”
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.