Bangs v. Maple Hills, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2012
8 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 Johnson v. Dodgen · Sun Valley Iowa Lake Ass'n v. Anderson · Meeker v. City of Clinton · Faught v. Budlong · Bingham v. Marshall & Huschart MacHinery Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court ... may allow reopening of the case at any stage of the trial, including after argument has commenced, if it appears “necessary to the due administration of justice.” Such a decision will ordinarily not be interfered with by a reviewing court. ... [T]he decision whether to reopen the case [is] a matter of discretion with the district court which [is] in the best position to determine what [is] “necessary and appropriate to achieve substantial justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the movant was entitled to a directed verdict at the close of all the evidence, and moved therefor, and the jury did not return such verdict, the court may then either grant a new trial or enter judgment as though it had directed a verdict for the movant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Easton v. Howard
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.