Devito v. Cellular Mobile Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Harvard University v. Goldstein (1999), Sonogram of New England, Inc. v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance (2002)
27 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 International Fidelity Insurance v. Wilson · Raunela v. Hertz Corp. · Ashapa v. Reed · 17 Mass. App. Ct. 558 - Brown v. Gerstein · Zarum v. Brass Mill Materials Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anywhere in the evidence, from whatever source derived any combination of circumstances ... from which a reasonable inference could be drawn in favor of the plaintiff....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not limited to that standard of proof required for a directed verdict... rather, the judge is ‘free to weigh the evidence and resolve all questions of credibility, ambiguity and contradiction in reaching a decision.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prophete v. Polynice
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.