Scott v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.3d 1275 · 1998
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Addisu v. Fred Meyer, Inc. (2000), Stewart v. U.S. Bancorp (2002)
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 610 v. Scott · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Company · Bolker v. Commissioner · United States v. Wing Fook Lui · Southland Sod Farms v. Stover Seed 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the issue presented is purely one of law” and does not require additional factual development (internal quotation marks omitted)). Rather, in order to raise such an argument, the deputies would need to present evidence on critical factual issues such as whether the deputies saw Augusta Millender’s gun”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judgment as a matter of law is proper if the evidence, construed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, permits only one reasonable conclusion, and that conclusion is contrary to the jury's.”
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.