Sawyer v. Ewen’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Merrill v. Reed (1962), Kerr v. Rollins (1970)
28 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 Johnson v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. · Parizo v. Wilson · Tracy v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co. · Farr v. Fisher · Valenti v. Imperial Assurance 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This (weight of the evidence) is not a proper ground upon which a court may enter a judgment notwithstanding the verdict since it is addressed to the trial court’s discretion. Judgments are not entered as a matter of discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Popper v. Levy
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.