Wright v. Paramount-Richards Theatres, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 303 · 1952
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969), Barbara A. Nesmith and Richard A. Nesmith v. H. D. Alford (1963)
91 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Louisiana state courts, the right to trial by jury guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment of the United States Constitution does not exist. The Louisiana Code of Practice of 1870 provides for jury trials in certain civil cases; but appellate courts have the right and duty to review both the law and the facts in all civil cases. La. Constitution of 1921, Art. 7, Sec. 10. “Federal courts are forbidden by the Seventh Amendment to re-examine any fact tried by a jury otherwise than according to the rules of the common law, while Louisiana state courts can review the facts in all civil cases. As a consequence of that situation, in civil jury cases federal courts evaluating decisions of Louisiana state courts as precedents have the difficult task of separating the decisions of the Louisiana courts on' the law from their review of the facts.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is the jury, not the [federal or state] court, which is the fact-finding body.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No fact, tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examinable, in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. This is a prohibition to the courts of the United States to re-examine any facts tried by a jury, in any other manner.”
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.