Charles J. Dumas v. Pamela A. MacLean’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 1062 · 1968
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Borras v. Sea-Land Service, Inc. (1978), Chedd-Angier Production Co., Inc. v. Omni Publications International, Ltd. (1985)
20 federal appellate · 4 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 Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. United States · Harold Hobart v. Michael P. O'brien, Harold M. Hobart v. John G. Donovan · Ramsdell v. Varick Co. · Finbar F. Creedon, P.P.A. v. Robert B. Loring
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The principles governing the consideration of motions for directed verdict and judgments n.o.v. are well settled in this circuit. The evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, giving him the benefit of every favorable inference that may be fairly drawn. If fair minded men may draw different inferences and reasonably disagree as to what the verdict should be, the matter is for the jury.'”
4 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.