Commonwealth Life Insurance v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1962 · most notably Globe Indemnity Company v. Daviess (1932), C. L. L. Motor Express Co., Inc. v. Achenbach (1935)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Chambers · Dailey v. Lexington & Eastern Railway Co. · Louisville Water Co. v. Lally · Penick v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Baker's Administrator
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of practice prevailing in this state requires the submission of a case to the jury if there is any evidence tending to sustain the cause of action alleged, yet if a verdict is flagrantly and palpably against the evidence, the court may set it aside and grant a new trial.”'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.