Guyer v. Elger’s Empirical Analysis
216 F.2d 537 · 1954
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Muriel Jeanne Homolla v. Shirley C. Gluck (1957), Bankers Life & Casualty Company v. C. M. Kirtley, Trustee in Corporate Reorganization Proceedings of Automatic Washer Company (1962)
45 federal appellate · 3 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 Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Black Hills v. Hubbard · Russell v. Turner · Buder v. Becker · Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Coleman · National Bellas Hess, Inc. v. Kalis
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has repeatedly ruled that it will accept the considered view of a District Judge as to doubtful questions of local law. Many of the cases in this Court and the Supreme Court which support that rule will be found in the case of Buder v. Becker, 8 Cir., 185 F.2d 311 , 315-316. In Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Coleman, 8 Cir., 186 F.2d 40 , 43, we said: `The burden of demonstrating error is upon the Casualty Company. In a case controlled by local law, that burden is a peculiarly heavy one. This Court is not an appellate court of the State of Missouri and establishes no rules of law for that State. We have repeatedly said that, in reviewing doubtful questions of local law, we would not adopt views contrary to those of the trial judge unless convinced of error, and that all that this Court reasonably can be expected to do in such cases is to see that the determination of the trial court is not induced by a clear misconception or misapplication of the local law. Russell v. Turner, 8 Cir., 148 F.2d 562, 564; Buder v. Becker, 8 Cir., 185 F.2d 311 , 315, and cases cited. If a federal district judge has reached a permissible conclusion upon a question of local law, we will not reverse, even though we may think the law should be otherwise.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fairly recently three different Iowa trial judges have been reversed by the Iowa Supreme Court for being too strict in the matter of submissibility in tort actions where the plaintiffs relied upon circumstantial evidence. * * * 42 "This Court is of the view that the trend of the decisions of the Iowa Supreme Court in civil cases in which circumstantial evidence is involved has been in favor of submissibility and away from the somewhat more strict views expressed and somewhat more strict attitude indicated in the earlier cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fairly recently three different Iowa trial judges have been reversed by the Iowa Supreme Court for being too strict in the matter of submissibility in tort actions where the plaintiffs relied upon circumstantial evidence. * * * 42”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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