Rockefeller v. Wedge’s Empirical Analysis
149 F. 130 · 1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1963
2 federal appellate ·
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 Walker v. New Mexico & Southern Pacific Railroad · City of Elizabeth v. Fitzgerald
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The practice of calling on jurors to specialize their verdict in the way that was done is furthermore deprecated, and the right of the court to do so is challenged. But the right to interrogate a» jury, and to act upon their findings, is directly sustained in Walker v. Southern Pacific R. R., 165 U. S. 593 , 597, 17 Sup. Ct. 421 , 41 L. Ed. 837 , and City of Elizabeth v. Fitzgerald, 114 Fed. 547 , 52 C. C. A. 321 , and does not deed to be vindicated here. And, far from being open to the criticism made of it, if it were oftener resorted to, it would save not a few mistrials; many rulings to which objection coiild otherwise be justly made being eliminated and rendered harmless. Clementson on Special Verdicts, 95, 286; 4 Mich. Law, Rev. 493.””
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.