Scheib v. Co Inc’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. · United States v. Gray · Charles R. Little, Cross-Appellee v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Cross-Appellant · Urti v. Transport Commercial Corp. · Indamer Corp. v. Crandon
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an established rule that an 'appellate court cannot review the sufficiency of the evidence in the absence of an effective motion for a directed verdict.' " (citation omitted) ); Scheib v. Williams-McWilliams Co. , 628 F.2d 509 , 512 (5 th Cir. 1980) ("When, as in this case, a motion for a new trial has been made on the ground of insufficient evidence to support the verdict and the like, the failure by the losing party to move for a directed verdict ... still operates to foreclose consideration of the question of sufficiency on appeal[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if, considering the totality of a charge, the instructions are 'comprehensive, balanced, fundamentally accurate, and not likely to confuse or mislead the jury, the charge will be deemed adequate.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether there was an `absolute absence of evidence to support the jury's verdict.' Fugitt v. Jones, 549 F.2d 1001 at 1004 (5th Cir.1977); Litherland v. Petrolane Offshore Construction Services, Inc., 546 F.2d 129, 134 (5th Cir.1977); Urti v. Transport Commercial Corp., 479 F.2d 766, 769 (5th Cir.1973); Indamer Corp. v. Crandon, 217 F.2d 391, 393 (5th Cir.1954).”
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.