Hanrahan v. Safway Steel Scaffold Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 1988 · most notably Hanson v. Ford Motor Co. (1960), Krueger v. Knutson (1961)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 Hanson v. Homeland Insurance Co. of America · Klein v. Beeten · Abbett v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Yates v. Gamble · Kundiger v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] motion for a directed verdict * * * should be granted only in those unequivocal cases where (1) in the light of the evidence as a whole, it would clearly be the duty of the trial court to set aside a contrary verdict as being manifestly against the entire evidence, or where (2) it would be contrary to the law applicable to the case.”
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.