Cleveland J. Stockton and Dorothy Altman Stockton v. John A. Altman, and Eleanor Altman Curran’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 946 · 1970
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Whiting v. Jackson State University (1980)
32 federal appellate · 4 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 Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Linkletter v. Walker · Swofford v. B & W, 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled, as we held in Delchamps, Inc. v. Borkin, 5th Cir. 1970, 429 F.2d 417 , that in the absence of a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict made at trial, this Court cannot examine the evidence for sufficiency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Eckert · Porter v. Eckert““[T]he verdict has the same effect as if the trial by jury had been a matter of right.””
2 later decisions 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.