United States of America, for the Use and Benefit of Weyerhaeuser Company v. Bucon Construction Company, Inc., and Travelers Indemnity Company’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. (1974), Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. (1978)
66 federal appellate · 2 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 Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Yeatts · Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. · Virginian Ry. Co. v. Armentrout · Felton v. Spiro
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the verdict is against the clear weight of the evidence * * * or will result in a miscarriage of justice, even though there may be substantial evidence which would prevent the direction of a verdict.'”
13 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.