Christopherson v. Humphrey’s Empirical Analysis
366 F.2d 323 · 1966
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969), Swearngin v. Sears Roebuck & Co. (1967)
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Simler v. Conner · Herron v. Southern Pacific Co. · Commercial Standard Insurance v. Feaster · United States v. Hess
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * In passing on a motion for a directed verdict he [the trial judge] must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the opposing party. Although a scintilla of evidence is not sufficient to justify submitting a case to the jury, a verdict may not be directed unless the evidence points all one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences which sustain the position of the party against whom the motion is made.”
2 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.