Orren Hulett v. Emmitt L. Brinson’s Empirical Analysis
229 F.2d 22 · 1956
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1988 · most notably Dagnello v. Long Island Rail Road (1961), Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Holland v. Tuller (1961)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. · Fanchon & Marco, Inc. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · Neese v. Southern Railway Co. · Washington Times Co. v. Bonner · Trowbridge v. Abrasive Co. of Philadelphia
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The rule that this Court will not review the action of a federal trial court in granting or denying a motion for a new trial for error of fact has been settled by a long and unbroken line of decisions; and has been frequently applied where the ground of the motion was that the damages awarded by the jury were excessive or were inadequate. The rule precludes likewise a review of such action by a Circuit Court of Appeals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the rule in the Federal courts is that an appellate court may reverse, if at all, for excessiveness of verdict only where the verdict is so grossly excessive or monstrous as to demonstrate clearly that the trial court has abused its discretion in permitting it to stand.”
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.