Compton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
377 F.2d 408 · 1967
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969), United States v. Hyde (1971)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Boyd v. United States · One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · Frances M. Cullers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, C. H. Cullers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · United States v. Fenix & Scisson, Inc.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The standard required for entry of judgment n. o. v. is the same as is required for a directed verdict, and, unless it can be said that reasonable persons cannot disagree as to the facts or inferences drawn therefrom, the jury verdict must stand. * * * A judge’s disagreement with conclusions reached by a trier of facts is not a valid reason for setting aside the jury’s conclusion. * * * The jury — and not the court — is the ultimate factfinding body, and, so long as divergent conclusions may be reasonably drawn from the evidence, a jury verdict may not be disturbed. -* ->:- * The question for the court is not whether or not a verdict is against the weight of the evidence, since this is a question for the jury to decide. It is only where there is no evidence of substance upon which reasonable men could differ that the trial court is empowered to set the jury verdict aside. * * * A jury’s verdict should never be preempted by the court unless it has no foundation in fact. * * * A court should not direct a verdict, even where the evidence was uncontradicted, where conflicting, permissible inferences may be drawn.” (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The practical effect (of the verdict) is that twelve jurors found contrary to the testimony of the three . . . witnesses, and certainly a juror has not only a right but a duty to use his common sense and experience and draw all reasonable inferences from the physical facts. . ” Compton v. United States, 377 F.2d 408, 412 (8th Cir. 1960)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A forfeiture is clearly a penalty for a criminal offense.”
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.