Fine v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
181 F.2d 300 · 1950
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1998 · most notably Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. (1952), Harold Yanow v. Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, a Corporation (1959)
44 federal appellate · 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 Francis v. Southern Pacific Co. · Freid v. McGrath · Vietti v. Wayne · Francis v. Southern Pac. Co.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither a belated motion nor a motion without reasons can given the trial court the jurisdiction necessary to hear and act on such motion, thereby enlarging the time for appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Grounds. A new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties and on all or part of the issues (1) in an action in which there has been a trial by jury, for any of the reasons for which new trials have heretofore been granted in actions at law in the courts of this state; and (2) in an action tried without a jury, for any of the reasons for which rehearings have heretofore been granted in suits in equity in the courts of this state. On a motion for a new trial in an action tried without a jury the court may open the judgment if one has been entered, take additional testimony, amend findings of fact and conclusions of law or make new findings and conclusions, and direct the entry of a new judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial court did not have jurisdiction to hear and pass on reasons for a new trial which were not assigned and served on the defendants within ten days after the entry of the judgment.”
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.