Huntt v. McNamee’s Empirical Analysis
141 F. 293 · 1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1952
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The courts of the United States have always exercised the right to control the disposition of causes pending before them, when either the allegations of the plaintiff or the evidence introduced in support thereof has failed to make out a case. Merchants’ Bank v. State Bank, 10 Wall. 604 , 19 L. Ed. 1008 ; Pleasants v. Fant, 22 Wall. 116 , 22 L. Ed. 780 . Por a number of years the Supreme Court of the United States declined to entertain writs of error upon nonsuits. That court has held that the Circuit Courts of the United States have no authority to order a nonsuit in invitum. Elmore v. Grymes, 1 Pet. 468 , 471, 7 L. Ed. 224 ; Crane v. Morris, 6 Pet. 597 , 8 L. Ed. 514 ; Castle et al. v. Bullard, 23 How. 172 , 183, 16 L. Ed. 424 ; Schuchardt v. Allens, 1 Wall. 359 , 370, 17 L. Ed. 642 ; Coughran v. Bigelow, 164 U. S. 301 , 307, 17 Sup. Ct. 117 , 41 L. Ed. 442 . Where the record disclosed that the plaintiff had voluntarily become nonsuited, a writ of error was ref used. him. Evans v. Phillips, 4 Wheat. 73 , 4 L. Ed. 516 ; Cossar v. Read, 17 Q. B. 540; Central Trns. Co. v. Pullman’s.Car Co., 139 U. S. 24 , 39, 11 Sup. Ct. 478 , 35 L. Ed. 55 . These cases cited are instructive as they relate to the questions involved in the assignments of error pertaining to the request for a nonsuit “While the general rule is as above indicated, still the Supreme Court has by means of exceptations taken during the trial, in states where statutes authorized nonsuits, passed upon the ques”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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