Atlantic Tubing & Rubber Co. v. International Engraving Co.’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 1272 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2000
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Yeatts · Ritter v. Narragansett Electric Company · D'Ambra v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] federal trial court has broad discretion to refuse to accept a general verdict and to order a new trial when it believes that the ends of justice so require. [Citations omitted.] This discretion encompasses the power to refuse to accept a jury’s answers to special interrogatories.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“considerable discretion . . . [in its decision whether to refuse] to enter judgment on the bases of a jury's answer to a set of interrogatories,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an appellate court must affirm if there is a view of the case that makes the jury's answers to the interrogatories consistent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.