Ahlstrom v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Holiday Inns of America, Inc. v. Peck (1974), City of Whittier v. Whittier Fuel & Marine Corp. (1978)
53 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 Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Yeatts · Veal v. Newlin, Inc. · Thomson v. Wheeler Construction Company · 161 F. Supp. 633 - Miller v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. · Rank v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The matter of granting or refusing a new trial rests in the sound discretion of the trial judge. We shall not interfere with the exercise of his discretion except in the most exceptional circumstances and to prevent a miscarriage of justice.”
14 later decisions 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.