Williams v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 153 · 1943
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Presley v. City of Norwood (1973), Keen v. Overseas Tankship Corp. (1952)
48 federal appellate · 6 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 Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · Herron v. Southern Pacific Co. · Nudd v. Burrows · City of Lincoln v. · Hall v. Ætna Life Ins.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rule 51 should be read in conjunction with Rule 46. The purpose of these rules is to inform the trial judge of possible errors, that he may have an opportunity to consider his rulings and if necessary to correct them, and where it appears in the record that the point urged on appeal was called to the attention of the trial court in such manner as to clearly advise it as to the question of law involved, that is sufficient.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Rule 46 of the Rules of Civil Procedure modifies the previous practice of formal exceptions to rulings or orders of the court and makes it sufficient for review that a party at the time the ruling or order of the court is made or sought, makes known to the court, the action which he desires the court to take or his objection to the action taken and his grounds therefor."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Jones“"There appears in the record a statement by the trial judge that before the jury retired the attorneys for the respective parties discussed with him in chambers the requests of each of them, and at the conclusion of this discussion the trial judge denied all of appellant's requests and all of appellee's requests except * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Jones
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.