Sipes v. Seymour’s Empirical Analysis
76 F. 116 · 1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1929
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Deery v. Cray · Lancaster v. Collins · Lucas v. Brooks · Mining Company v. Taylor · Boston Mining Co. v. Eagle Mining 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is a court for the correction of the errors of the court below, but those who assail its rulings must present the evidence upon which it acted. In the absence of that evidence, the presumption is that the court below was right. This assignment cannot be sustained.” Sipes v. Seymour, 40 U. S. App. 185, 187, 22 C. C. A. 90 , and 76 Fed. 116 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The direction to the jury to return a verdict for the defendants was therefore right. It is the duty of a trial court to direct a verdict for the defendants, when the evidence is such that, in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion, it would be compelled to set aside a verdict returned in favor of the plaintiff.””
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.