Simblest v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.2d 1 · 1970
Citation profile
161 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 323 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Berkey Photo, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co. (1979), Zahra v. Town of Southold (1995)
161 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Dick v. New York Life Insurance
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 323 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence is such that, without weighing the credibility of the witnesses or otherwise considering the weight of the evidence, there can be but one conclusion as to the verdict that reasonable men could have reached.”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question is not whether there is literally no evidence supporting the party against whom the motion is directed but whether there is evidence upon which the jury could properly find a verdict for that party. In determining whether the evidence is sufficient the court is not free to weigh the evidence or to pass on the credibility of the witnesses or to substitute its judgment of the facts for that of the jury. Instead, it must view the evidence most favorably to the party against whom the motion is made and give that party the benefit of all reasonable inferences from the evidence.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“)), the court's finding that any reputation that the Village might have had for being hostile to Orthodox Jews had been created by the plaintiffs themselves was inconsistent with a viewing of the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiffs. 107 Second, though the court stated that it was granting the Village's Rule 50(b) motion”
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.