Ferrell v. Trailmobile, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
223 F.2d 697 · 1955
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Geneva Towers Tenants Organization v. Federated Mortgage Investors (1974), Beliz v. Wh McLeod & Sons Packing Company (1985)
83 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 Smith v. Pollin · County of Dakota v. Glidden · American Book Company v. State of Kansas Galen Nichols · Miller v. United States
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district court retains jurisdiction to consider and deny such [post-judgment] motions, ... [and] if it indicates that it will grant the motion, the appellant should then make a motion in the Court of Appeals for a remand of the case in order that the district court may grant such motion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“practically conclusive evidence shows that the appellant had actually paid all eighteen installments for the purchase of the trailer, it is obvious that the judgment should be set aside to prevent a manifest miscarriage of justice. In such a case, the ends of justice may require granting a new trial even though proper diligence was not used to secure such evidence for use at the trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"a party who considered himself entitled to relief both under Rule 60(b) and also by appeal, might, on occasion, be required to elect between the two remedies, if appeal deprived the [trial] court of jurisdiction to consider the motion under Rule 60(b)."”
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.