Felton v. Spiro’s Empirical Analysis
78 F. 576 · 1897
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1990 · most notably Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. (1933), Dyer v. MacDougall (1952)
100 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 Mattox v. United States · Grand Trunk Ry Co of Canada v. Ives · Pennsylvania Company v. Roy · Elliott v. Chicago M St P Ry Co · Southern Pac Co v. Pool
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But I am not too happy with the verdict in view of the evidence in the case. It impressed me during this trial that there was almost overwhelming evidence of negligence on the part of the driver. In fact, I was quite surprised when the verdict came in as it did because I thought there was evidence of negligence. 13 "I am dissatisfied with the verdict. I think it is against the weight of the evidence, and I set the verdict aside and order a new trial in these cases on that ground.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duncan v. Duncan““Section 987, Rev. St., rolled on, rentes only to method of staying execution rending new trial, and (loos not limit the time in which motions for new trial may he otherwise filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanborn v. Bay“no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”
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.