Sutton v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2017
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Huset v. J. I. Case Threshing Mach. Co. · Casey v. Wrought Iron Bridge Co. · O'Brien v. American Bridge Co. · Schubert v. J. R. Clark Co. · Thornton v. Dow
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reversal will not necessarily follow the giving of a defective instruction, if, when taken in connection with the other [instructions], the law of the case is fairly given, and no one instruction should be condemned as reversible error, if it appears to be entirely clear as a guide to the jury, when read with the others given in the case.... If two instructions are given on the same subject, they should be considered together, and where two instructions, construed together, fairly state the law, the case will not be reversed for error existing in one of them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is of no consequence what our opinion may be as to the facts. If there is substantial evidence to sustain the verdict, this court is powerless to set it aside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colemere v. Layton
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.