Townsend v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2008
13 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 408 So. 2d 679 - Affordable Homes, Inc. v. Devil's Run, Ltd. · 395 So. 2d 213 - Alvarez v. DeAguirre · Brown v. Montgomery Ward & Company · Ferber v. ORANGE BLOSSOM CENTER, INC · 405 So. 2d 485 - Medina v. 187th Street Apartments, Ltd.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is any evidence to support a possible verdict for the non-moving party, a directed verdict is improper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he court ... must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.