Bateman v. Roller’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 1964 · most notably Nicholas v. Latham (1956), Bishop v. Huffman (1953)
42 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 City of Sedan v. Church · Ferguson v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Atkinson v. Darling · Sanders v. Wakefield · Myers v. Wright
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . and that defendants’ Motion for a New Trial should be sustained in that the verdict of the Jury was given under the influence of passion and prejudice; that said Verdict and the Special Findings are in whole or in part contrary to the evidence, and the Court is not satisfied with said Findings and General Verdict.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““With respect to what is required in order to warrant the reversal of a ruling granting a motion for new trial we have repeatedly held that action of such nature is so much in the discretion of the trial court that an appellant must clearly establish error with respect to some pure, simple, and unmixed question of law.” (p. 113.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. Marshall
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.