Rewis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate ·

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our review of the lower court’s findings is, of course, governed by Fed.R.Civ. P. 52(a), and this court cannot set aside those findings unless they are clearly erroneous. A trial court’s finding of fact is clearly erroneous if it is without substantial evidence to support it, or the district court misapprehended the effect of the evidence. Lentz v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 428 F.2d 36 , 39 (5th Cir., 1970); Gibbs v. Tomlinson, 362 F.2d 394 , 397 (5th Cir., 1966).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lee v. United States

2. “(t)he determination of when the obligation is no longer owing or whether it was to be paid is, of course, a question of fact to be resolved by the trial judge. Such findings will not be set aside unless they are without substantial evidence to support them, or the court misapprehended the effect of the evidence, or whether on reviewing the entire evidence the court is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Loftin & Woodard, Inc. v. United States