Bennett v. D. C. Transit System, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.2d 325 · 1962
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1984
7 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 Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Pauling v. McElroy · Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Lind v. Schenley Industries Inc. · Shewmaker v. Capital Transit Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ruling of a trial judge on an alternative motion for a new trial is ordinarily not Reviewable . . . . It is appropriate that (the trial court's) . . . discretion be respected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is in derogation of the jury function, as it seems to me, for the conclusion they reached, attributable to no error of law, not to be given effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“no undesirable or pernicious element has occurred or been introduced into the trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.