Bennett v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.2d 349 · 1959
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1975
16 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 Dick v. New York Life Insurance · Glidewell, Admin. v. Arkhola Sand Gravel Co. · Quinn v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Ford Motor Co. v. Mondragon · Doering v. Buechler
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff and the trial court rely upon Anglen v. Braniff Airways, 8 Cir., 237 F.2d 736 , and Continental Can Co. v. Horton, 8 Cir., 250 F.2d 637 . Plaintiff cites these cases in support of her contention that a jury can choose between two conflicting theories of a collision. Plaintiff overlooks the limitation that such choice can be made only when the inferences upon which such theories are based can reasonably be drawn from the evidence. That such limitation exists is made clear by a careful examination of the eases as a whole and the rule applied in each of said cases, reading (at page 643 of 250 F.2d): “ '* * * In a jury case, where conflicting inferences reasonably can be drawn from the evidence, it is the function of the jury to determine what inferences shall be drawn.’ * * * (Emphasis supplied.)””
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.