Crosby v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
300 F.2d 323 · 1962
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1987
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain · McCracken v. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad · Duff v. United States · Williamsburg Shop, Inc. v. Weeks · Olson v. United States
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 questions presented on this appeal are whether the district court erred in denying defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and a judgment notwithstanding the verdict. In considering a motion for a directed verdict, the “trial judge must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plain tiff. * * * ” Only if reasonable minds could arrive at but one conclusion and that in favor of the defendant should a verdict be directed. * * * [Emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shelton v. Jones
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.