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140 F.2d 31 · 1944

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
6
states following
January 2009
most recently cited

27 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. Goldwyn (1964), Merola v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (1975)

27 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions

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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 Trustees v. Greenough · New York Dock Co v. The Poznan · United States v. Equitable Trust Co. · Bucy v. Nevada Const. Co. · Bingham Pump Co. v. Edwards

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “... When findings of fact are made in actions tried by the court without a jury, the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the findings may thereafter be raised whether or not the party raising the question has made in the district court an objection to such findings or has made a motion to amend them or a motion for judgment.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Whitaker v. Earnhardt · Newell v. Bank of Palm Springs (In Re Newell)
  2. “"Appellee bases his motion on Rule 46 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: * * * The purpose of informing the court of supposed error is to give it an opportunity to reconsider its ruling and to make any changes deemed advisable, * * *."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.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.