Forrett v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.3d 416 · 1997
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Jennifer Passantino Charles Passantino v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Order and Products Inc (2000), First Alliance Mortgage Company v. C (2006)
30 federal appellate · 2 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 Graham v. Connor · Tennessee v. Garner · McKinney v. Baldwin · Scott v. Henrich · Plakas v. Drinski
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judgment as a matter of law is proper if the evidence, construed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, allows only one reasonable conclusion . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Forrett v. Richardson, 112 F.3d 416 , 419 (9th Cir. 1997), overruled on other grounds, Chroma Lighting v. GTE Products Corp., 127 F.3d 1136 (9th Cir. 1997). Rule 50(a)(1) provides in pertinent part that: If during a trial by jury a party has been fully heard on an issue and there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find for that party on that issue, the court may determine the issue against that party and may grant a motion for judgment as a matter of law against that party with respect to a claim . . . . Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(a)(1). 4 35”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he suspect need not be armed or pose an immediate threat to the officers or others at the time of the shooting.”
2 later decisions 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.