Theriot v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
262 F.2d 754 · 1959
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1976 · most notably Doris R. Edwards, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Cross-Appellees (1975), Mercer v. Theriot (1964)
35 federal appellate ·
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 Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Galloway v. United States · Moore v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. · Noseworthy v. City of New York · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Reid
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * to enter a judgment for the defendant unless plaintiff, within a time and under conditions to be fixed by the district judge, makes a satisfactory showing that on another trial evidence of sufficient probative force to justify submission of the cause to the jury will be offered, in which event the judgment shall be for a new trial.” Theriot v. Mercer, 262 F.2d 754 , 761.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mercer v. Theriot
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.