Witt v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
208 F.2d 285 · 1953
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably International Business Machines Corp. v. Edelstein (1975), Meriwether v. Coughlin (1989)
16 federal appellate · 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 Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Keystone Manufacturing Co. v. Adams · Bowman v. Loperena · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Memphis v. Brown
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The liberal Rules of Civil Procedure must not be transformed by judicial interpretation into technical traps for the unwary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To hold that the motion for a new trial was a nullity because the grounds were not stated, even though the trial judge entertained it ... would be to deny review on a technicality in contravention of the spirit of the rules.”
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.