Compton v. Luckenbach Overseas Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.2d 1130 · 1970
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Mallis v. Bankers Trust Co. (1983), Bevevino v. Saydjari (1978)
24 federal appellate ·
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 Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Sentilles v. Inter-Caribbean Shipping Corp. · Still v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · Gebhardt v. Wilson Freight Forwarding Co. · Portman v. American Home Products Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial judge, exercising a mature judicial discretion, should view the verdict in the overall setting of the trial; consider the character of the evidence and the complexity or simplicity of the legal principles which the jury was bound to apply to the facts; and abstain from interfering with the verdict unless it is quite clear that the jury has reached a seriously erroneous result. The judge’s duty is essentially to see that there is no miscarriage of justice. If convinced that there has been then it is his duty to set the verdict aside; otherwise not.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“found defendant's evidence 'overwhelming'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(o)nce the trial judge has made the determination that the weight of the evidence is 'overwhelmingly' against the verdict, he has the duty to exercise his discretion in view of the overall setting of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bevevino v. Saydjari
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.