Lyle v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.2d 325 · 1969
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably United States v. Hooshmand (1991), American Airlines, Inc. v. United States (1969)
29 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 38 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Cardillo v. United States · Southern Railway Co. v. Jackson · Long v. Long · Rothermel v. Duncan · Scott v. Townsend
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accept all evidence in favor of the verdict as true and to give such evidence the benefit of all permissible inferences that would help sustain the jury's award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court's instructions permit a verdict to be based on an issue not supported by sufficient evidence, the jury verdict must be set aside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“how much evidence there is ... of mental incapacity ... [since] we have no way of knowing on what basis the jury's verdict was founded”
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.