John R. Ryen v. Thomas R. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 1333 · 1971
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Bueno v. City of Donna (1983), Vander Zee v. Karabatsos (1978)
17 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 Gotthelf v. Commissioner · White v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad · Alonzo Wayne Taylor v. The Washington Terminal Company · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Britton · Rankin v. Shayne Bros.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] motion for a new trial must be made to the trial court if a party desires to attack on appeal a judgment in a jury case on the ground that the damages are inadequate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he trial judge has the chief responsibility for passing on the question as to whether a new trial is to be granted on the ground of excessive or inadequate damages ... [and] must, as a result, be given an opportunity to exercise his discretion.”
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.