Meitz v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 895 · 1969
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Presley v. City of Norwood (1973), Walker v. Engle (1983)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Dick v. New York Life Insurance · William J. Schneider v. Chrysler Motors Corporation, a Corporation, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, a Corporation, William J. Schneider v. Chrysler Corporation, a Corporation · Howard v. Scarritt Estate Co. · Zalle v. Underwood
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rule 51 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure] does not require formality, and it is not important in what form an objection is made or even that a formal objection is made at all, as long as it is clear that the trial judge understood the party’s position; the purpose of the rule is to inform the trial judge of possible errors so that he [or she] may have an opportunity to correct them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule as to the quantum of contributory negligence which is sufficient to prevent recovery is that it must be such as to enter into and form the direct, producing, and efficient cause of the casualty, and absent which the casualty would not have happened.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. McCloskey“No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto . . . stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds [for] his objection.”
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.