Ames Nowell v. Alexander C. Dick’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 1204 · 1969
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Delancey v. Motichek Towing Service, Inc. (1970), Gibraltar Savings v. LDBrinkman Corp. (1988)
25 federal appellate · 1 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 Quercia v. United States · Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Martin v. . Camp · Dowell, Inc. v. Jowers
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.
“an appellate court will notice an error so fundamental as to result in a miscarriage of justice, (although) . . . the power will only be exercised in exceptional cases . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“matters not what we might have done if this were a case in which we were called upon to approve or confirm a fee in the exercise of our independent discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolf v. Frank“considerable latitude in the choice of language used to convey to the jury in a clear and correct fashion the applicable law”
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.