O'Malley v. Cover’s Empirical Analysis
221 F.2d 156 · 1955
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1997 · most notably Thomas Polk v. Ford Motor Company, Ethel Lee Marshall, Guardian v. Ford Motor Company (1976), Barnes v. Dale (1988)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Hall v. Ætna Life Ins. · Ayers v. United States · Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Mims · Een v. Consolidated Freightways · Home Ins. Co. of New York v. Davila
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the close of the plaintiff’s case the defendant moved for a directed verdict * * *. The court reserved its ruling on the motion. The defendant then proceeded to introduce his evidence, thereby waiving his motion for the direction of a verdict.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The District Court, under the circumstances, did not and could not err in failing to direct a verdict which, in effect, both parties had asked the court not to direct.”
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.