Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal R. v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 880 · 1950
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2018
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · Brown v. Western Railway · City of Lincoln v. · Southern Railway-Carolina Division v. Bennett
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As a general rule a trial Judge, in order to maintain that impartiality which proper trial technique demands, should be careful not only as to the number and type of questions propounded by him to witnesses but also as to the manner in which they are propounded. The interrogation of witnesses by the trial Judge is by no means prohibited but oftentimes it is necessary to the administration of justice in developing the truth and in aiding the jury to understand the situation. The extent to which this may appropriately and reasonably be done is a matter which must rest largely in the sound and unabused discretion of the trial Judge. It is noted in the present case that the trial Judge asked a number of questions, but we are unable to say from the cold print that they, either singly or collectively, were such as to create any prejudice against the Defendant. Most of them seem quite innocuous and none seems to require the baneful imputation placed upon them by Defendant." Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal R. v. Welsh, 179 F.2d 880, 881-82 (5th Cir. 1950).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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