Beal v. Reading Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Corabi v. Curtis Publishing Co. (1971), Scaife Co. v. Rockwell-Standard Corp. (1971)
81 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 Coal Co. v. Mahon · Jones Et Vir v. Williams · Bellettiere v. Philadelphia · Class & Nachod Brewing Co. v. Giacobello · Carroll v. Pittsburgh
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether or not the jury's verdict was so contrary to the evidence as to shock one's sense of justice and to make the award of a new trial imperative so that right may be given another opportunity to prevail”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hartigan v. Clark“Where the reason assigned for the grant of a new trial involves the exercise of discretion, ordinarily the order of the trial court will not be interfered with, in the absence of palpable abuse of power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Cowden“so long as he does nothing to change the contour of his own property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.