Christine M. Grunewald, Individually and as of the Will of Henry W. Grunewald, Deceased v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a Missouri Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.2d 983 · 1964
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Rutledge v. Electric Hose & Rubber Co. (1975), Mekdeci v. Merrell National Laboratories (1983)
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Rodriguez v. New York · Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Costello v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'only in extreme cases in which it clearly appears that the moving party was free of negligence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is equally well settled ... that in a civil case an attorney's withdrawal does not give his client an absolute right to a continuance. This, too, is a matter for the court's discretion.... [A] trial court's refusal to grant a continuance will not be disturbed on appeal unless abuse of discretion is demonstrated. 75 * * * 76 * * * 77”
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.