Styles v. Ceranski’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Hutcherson v. City of Phoenix (1998), Dawson v. Withycombe (2007)
50 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 Trus Joist Corp. v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America · Duquette v. Superior Court · Saide v. Stanton · Curlee v. Morris · Spain v. Griffith
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is, of course, the invariable rule of this court that, where there is a dispute in the evidence from which reasonable [persons] could arrive at different conclusions as to the ultimate facts, we will not disturb the findings of a trial court or the verdict of a jury because we do not agree with the conclusion reached. On the other hand, if there is no evidence in the record which would justify such a conclusion by the triers of fact, it is not only our right, but our duty, to set aside a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“view the evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the verdict, and [ ] resolve all inferences against the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fischer
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.