Vuono v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (1969), Spencer v. Good Earth Restaurant Corporation (1972)
55 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 Butler v. Steck · White v. E & F CONSTRUCTION CO. · Brooks v. Singer · Johnson v. Consolidated Industries, Inc. · McDonald v. Connecticut 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Connecticut, a directed verdict may be rendered only where, on the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the non-movant, the trier of fact could not reasonably reach any other conclusion than that embodied in the verdict as directed.”
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.