Somerville v. Capital Transit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.2d 413 · 1951
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1987
11 federal appellate ·
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 Freid v. McGrath · Ryan v. United States · Dollar S. S. Lines, Inc. v. Merz · National Ben. Life Ins. v. Shaw-Walker Co. · Boyle v. Bond
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state of the record before us precludes at the outset a finding of abuse in this case[.] ... Accordingly, we cannot characterize the action of the trial court in granting a new trial in the manner done here as an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all or any of the parties and on all or part of the issues,”
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.