Smith v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 832 · 1951
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Dagnello v. Long Island Rail Road (1961), Troupe v. Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Co. (1956)
68 federal appellate · 5 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 Glasser v. United States · Hormel v. Helvering · Quercia v. United States · Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. · Herron v. Southern Pacific 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection. * * *«”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * While we recognize the power of an appellate court in a proper case to consider on its own motion errors to which no objections were made, it should be exercised sparingly and only in exceptional cases and in the interest of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ordinarily this question is primarily for the trial court alone and a determination thereof presents no grounds for reversal on appeal except for manifest abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.