Kearney D. Spears v. Glenn L. Hough’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 529 · 1972
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Clark v. Burlington Northern, Inc. (1984), Herber 85-5185 v. Johns-Manville Corporation (1986)
16 federal appellate ·
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 Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. · Joseph v. Rowlen · Mrs. Betty G. Wingerter v. Maryland Casualty Company and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Maryland Casualty Company and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Mrs. Betty G. Wingerter · Wright v. Hoover
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff but assessed damages as “None,” does not make such a verdict invalid or ambiguous, and does not necessitate a new trial. Spears, at 531.”
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.