American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation, and Central Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation v. Wilson-Keith & Company, a Corporation, and Dumas-Wilson & Company, a Corporation, Wilson-Keith & Company, a Corporation, and Dumas-Wilson & Company, a Corporation v. American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation, and Central Mutual Insurance Company, a Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
247 F.2d 249 · 1957
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1993
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Finn v. American Fire & Casualty Co. · Marshall's U. S. Auto Supply, Inc. v. Cashman · Kansas City Stock Yards Co. v. A. Reich & Sons · Packard Manufacturing Co. v. Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“regardless of the different results in the trials, the function of this court is to review alleged errors and if [a party litigant] had become, in due course, vested with a valid judgment, they are entitled to have the action of the trial court which divested them of it reviewed for the alleged manifest error * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duncan v. Duncan“'knowledge' had no technical meaning and meant 'to know'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“understanding intelligent control directed by knowledge;”
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.