Michael Hopp’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Hernandez v. New York · Jett v. Dallas Independent School District
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the issue was not raised in the motion for the directed verdict at the close of all the evidence, it is improper to grant the JNOV on that issue.”
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.