Eastern Mountain Platform Tennis, Inc. v. Sherwin-Williams Co.’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 492 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Richard Iacobucci v. Willard Boulter Richard Iacobucci (1999), Scarfo v. Cabletron Systems, Inc. (1995)
26 federal appellate · 17 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 Glasser v. United States · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Thibault v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Kolb v. Goldring, Inc. · In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litigation
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing an award of damages, the district court is obliged to review the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party and to grant remittitur or a new trial on damages only when the award `exceeds any rational appraisal or estimate of the damages that could be based upon the evidence before it.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is merely a judge's determination that genuine issues of material fact exist. It is not a judgment, and does not foreclose trial on issues on which summary judgment was sought.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has been overtaken by subsequent events, namely, a full-dress trial and an adverse jury verdict”
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.