Gloria Elston v. Larry Morgan and Clarence A. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 47 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2012
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 40 Ill. 2d 193 - Maki v. Frelk · Krieger v. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad · Tillman v. Great American Indemnity Co. of New York · Marcus Loew Booking Agency v. Pat
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the answers [to the interrogatories] are consistent with each other but one or more is inconsistent with the general verdict, judgment may be entered in accordance with the answers, notwithstanding the general verdict, or the court may return the jury for further consideration of its answers and verdict or may order a new trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“responsibility of a trial judge to resolve the inconsistency”
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.