Palmer v. Fox Software, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2017
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Baltimore Co v. Baugh · Krahn v. Kinney · MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY v. Nelson · Crosby v. Beam
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when a Rule 50 challenge is mounted to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a jury's findings. No deference is appropriate in diversity cases to the trial court's resolutions of legal questions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“need show no deference to the trial court's assessment of the sufficiency of the evidence before a jury, even if state law so requires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.