Nell Williams v. John R. Slade, John S. Slade’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 605 · 1970
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Burger King Corp. v. Mason (1983), Charles A. Castle v. Sangamo Weston, Inc., a Corporation, Chris Papastrat, Shelby Bass v. Sangamo Weston, Inc., a Corporation (1988)
25 federal appellate · 19 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 · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Washington Gas Light Co. v. Lansden · O'Neill v. United States · Hatfield v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court may properly award a partial new trial only when the issue affected by the error could have in no way influenced the verdict on those issues which will not be included in the new trial. If the decision on the other issues could in any way have been infected by the error then a new trial must be had on all issues.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it serves judicial efficiency by allowing the judge to conclude the litigation (in a jury trial) if the facts and inferences are so overwhelmingly in favor of the moving party that the court believes that reasonable men could not arrive at a contrary verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“given the opportunity to view the [dispute] comprehensively....”
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.