Cox v. City of Freeman, Missouri’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 887 · 1963
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Orthokinetics, Inc. v. Safety Travel Chairs, Inc. (1986), Daigle v. City of Portsmouth (1987)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Galloway v. United States · Max v. Spaeth · Sutton v. Settle · Geib v. Slater
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.
“If the court denies a motion for a directed verdict which fails to state the specific grounds for the motion, the moving party may not complain of the denial on appeal. Conversely, if such a motion is granted, the adverse party who did not object to failure of the motion to state specific grounds therefor cannot raise such objection in the appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n adverse party who does not object at trial to his opponent's failure to state a specific ground for a motion for a directed verdict will not be heard to complain of this lack of specificity on appeal.”
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.