Wanda Cowger v. William H. Arnold v. Josephine Joyce Cowger’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 219 · 1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2009
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Frank v. Maryland · Denneny v. Siegel · Oliveras v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. · Gatenby v. Altoona Aviation Corporation
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the undisputed evidence results in a verdict that is totally without legal support justice requires a new trial despite counsel’s failure to move for a directed verdict prior to submission of the case to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Technically the appeal should have been from the final judgment ... [but] since the motion for a new trial and notice of appeal were timely filed, we may and do treat this matter as an appeal from the final judgment.”); see generally 11 Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller, & Maty Kay Kane, Federal Practice and Procedure § 2818 (2d ed. 1995) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coney v. NPR, Inc.
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.