Hennessy v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 302 · 1978
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably Yashon v. Gregory (1984), Lewis v. Seaboard Railroad (1987)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Foman v. Davis · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Mercer v. Theriot · Serzysko v. Chase Manhattan Bank · Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Mims
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and observed that the rules reject the idea that one procedural mistake may preclude a proper decision on the merits. The general practice now followed in the Federal appellate courts when an appeal is mistakenly taken from the order denying the motion for a new trial when it should have been from the judgment is to”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen an appeal is taken from the final judgment, or treated by the court as so taken, it may bring up for review any legal error, including alleged abuse of discretion in the denial of the motion for a new trial.”
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.