Downing v. Marlia’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably General Electric Company v. Bush (1972), Shoshone Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Dolinski (1966)
2 district · 26 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Troupe v. Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Co. · Duran v. Mueller · Hotel Riviera, Inc. v. Short · Wagon Wheel Saloon & Gambling Hall, Inc. v. Mavrogan
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.. . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Appellant’s objection to the refusal of Instruction B was insufficient under Rule 51. Merely informing the court that refused instructions ‘In my opinion, (are) proper and under the evidence in this case should be given’ does not assist the trial judge in determining the grounds for objection so that he may properly consider whether to revise his initial decision and cure what otherwise might be error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tidwell v. Clarke““The Court: Does the plaintiff have any instructions to offer in addition to those the Court has indicated will be given? “Mr. Garroway: The plaintiff has offered A, B, C, and D, instructions that have been refused by the Court. Each of these instructions in my opinion, is proper and under the evidence in this case should be given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tidwell v. Clarke
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.