Rodowicz v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
279 F.3d 36 · 2002
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Crowley v. L.L. Bean, Inc. (2002), Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary v. QLT Phototherapeutics, Inc. (2009)
18 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n · Bratt v. International Business MacHines Corp. · McEvoy Travel Bureau, Inc. v. Norton Co. · 31 Mass. App. Ct. 72 - Zimmerman v. Kent · Wolfork v. Tackett
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must affirm unless the evidence was so strongly and overwhelmingly inconsistent with the verdicts that no reasonable jury could have returned them.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is weighted toward preservation of the jury verdict,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he giving of [a jury] instruction is reversible error only if it (1) was misleading, unduly complicating, or incorrect as a matter of law, and (2) adversely affected the objecting party's substantial rights.”
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.