Dyer v. MacDougall’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.2d 265 · 1952
Citation profile
201 federal appellate · 13 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 402 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1962), United States v. Raddatz (1980)
201 federal appellate · 13 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Arnstein v. Porter · Reeves v. Beardall
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 402 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nevertheless, although it is therefore true that in strict theory a party having the affirmative might succeed in convincing a jury of the truth of his allegations in spite of the fact that all the witnesses denied them, we think it plain that a verdict would nevertheless have to be directed against him.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * therefore, if the defendants on the motion succeeded in proving that the plaintiff would not have enough evidence to go to the jury on the issue, the judgment was right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the evidence is such that without weighing the credibility of the witnesses there can be but one reasonable conclusion as to the verdict, the court should determine the proceeding by non-suit, directed verdict or otherwise in accordance with the applicable practice without submission to the jury, or by judgment notwithstanding the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Figueroa v. Mazza
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.