Seals v. Hickey’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Mather v. Griffin Hospital (1988), Zichichi v. Middlesex Memorial Hospital (1987)
2 district · 187 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Roth v. United States · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Litigants have a constitutional right to have questions of fact decided by a jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the right to have the jury, rather than the court, pass upon the factual issue of damages, when there is reasonable room for a reasonable difference of opinion among fair-minded men as to the amount which should be awarded. The question of damages in personal injury cases, especially in these times of changing values, is always a difficult one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one obviously immovable limitation on the legal discretion of the court to set aside a verdict, since the constitutional right of trial by jury includes the right to have issues of fact as to which there is room for a reasonable difference of opinion among fairminded men passed upon by the jury and not by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.