McKnight ex rel. Ludwig v. Johnson Controls, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 1396 · 1994
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Frazier (2004), Faigin v. Kelly (1999)
90 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Hullum v. United States · Delaware v. New York · Sanders Confectionery Products Inc. v. Heller Financial, Inc.
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]udgment as a matter of law is appropriate only when all of the evidence points one way and is 'susceptible of no reasonable inference sustaining the position of the nonmoving party.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether there is sufficient evidence to support a jury verdict.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining whether a plaintiff has made a submissible case, we must examine the sufficiency of the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff and view all inferences in his or her favor.”
3 later decisions 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.