Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., a Corporation, Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Douglas H. Huber’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 713 · 1976
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Whittaker Corporation v. Execuair Corporation (1992), In Re James R. Ahlers and Mary M. Ahlers, Debtors. James R. Ahlers and Mary M. Ahlers v. Norwest Bank Worthington and Federal Land Bank, in Re James R. Ahlers and Mary M. Ahlers, Debtors. Norwest Bank Worthington, N.A. v. James R. Ahlers and Mary M. Ahlers (1986)
98 federal appellate · 1 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 Hormel v. Helvering · Davis v. Alaska · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Beigel v. United States · Griffin 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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is old and well settled law that issues not raised in the trial court cannot be considered by this court.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“exceptional cases where the obvious result 'would be a plain miscarriage of justice[,]'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““This fact goes to the weight of the appellant’s authorities, not as an excuse for not raising the issue below. Appellant was not restricted from arguing this point at trial, only in supporting [his] argument. It is a well-established rule in [the Eighth] circuit that defenses not raised or litigated in the trial court cannot be urged for the first time on appeal.””
3 later decisions 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.