Pruett v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.2d 436 · 1960
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. (1978), Delancey v. Motichek Towing Service, Inc. (1970)
55 federal appellate · 6 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 Lavender v. Kurn · Affolder v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad · Francis v. Southern Pacific Co. · Whiteman v. Pitrie · Indamer Corp. v. Crandon
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absolute absence of evidence to support the jury's verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection. Opportunity shall be given to make the objection out of the hearing of the jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a party allows a case to go to the jury without challenging the sufficiency of the evidence by a motion for a directed verdict, the appellate court is powerless to review the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.”
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.