Martinez Moll v. Levitt & Sons of Puerto Rico, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 565 · 1978
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Freeman v. Package Machinery Co. (1988), Smith v. University of North Carolina (1980)
40 federal appellate · 7 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 Ripon Society, Inc. v. National Republican Party · Sulmeyer v. Coca Cola Co. · Charles R. Little, Cross-Appellee v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Cross-Appellant · Virginia T. Gillentine v. Maxwell N. McKeand Lawrence Moore · Nimrod v. Sylvester
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he prudential rationale underlying Rule 50(b) is that both the opposing party and the court should be on notice of the movant's legal claim prior to the case going to the jury. This ensures that the opposing party will be able to cure any deficiency in his case and permits the judge to rule on the legal sufficiency of the case `without impinging on the jury's fact-finding province.'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court did nothing that could reasonably have caused [defendant] to believe that all had been done that was necessary to preserve the issue for review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no basis ... for treating the present case as one where there was substantial compliance with the Rule.”
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.