MacKay v. Costigan’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 125 · 1950
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1989 · most notably Kippen v. Jewkes (1958), Calloway v. Central Charge Service (1971)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Merlo v. Public Service Co. · Knudson v. Knudson · Mosher v. Thrush
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * they present only a question of law as to whether or not, when all of the evidence with reasonable inferences therefrom is considered in its aspect most favorable to the plaintiffs, there is a total failure or lack of evidence to prove any necessary element of the plaintiff’s ease.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We first direct our attention to the action of the trial court in sustaining defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The law is well settled that in passing upon such a motion the trial court must be governed by the same rules which govern it in passing upon a motion for a directed verdict. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Major v. McCurdy
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.