Peterman v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.2d 88 · 1974
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Stradley v. Cortez (1975), American Bearing Company Inc v. Litton Industries Inc American Bearing Company (1984)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp. · Dragna v. California · Freid v. McGrath · Kanatser v. Chrysler 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 59. New Trials; Amendments of Judgments * * * * * * (b) Time for Motion. A motion for a new trial shall be served not later than 10 days after the entry of the judgment. •* * * * * * (d) On Initiative of Court. Not later than 10 days after entry of judgment the court of its own initiative may order a new trial for any reason for which it might have granted a new trial on motion of a party. After giving the parties notice and an opportunity to be heard on the matter, the court may grant a motion for a new trial, timely served, for a reason not stated in the motion. In either case, the court shall specify in the order the grounds therefor. (e) Motion to Alter or Amend a Judgment. A motion to alter or amend the judgment shall be served not later than 10 days after entry of the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stradley v. Cortez“[i]f a verdict was returned the court may allow the judgment to stand or may reopen the judgment and either order a new trial or direct the entry of judgment as if the requested verdict had been directed.”
1 later decision 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.