Hiltgen v. Sumrall’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 695 · 1995
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Molski v. Mj Cable Inc (2007), Hidden Oaks Limited v. City of Austin (1998)
72 federal appellate · 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 Browning-Ferris Industries of Vermont, Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc. · Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Francis v. United States · 539 So. 2d 218 - Green Oil Co. v. Hornsby
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even though we might have reached a different conclusion if we had been the trier of fact, we are not free to reweigh the evidence or to re-evaluate credibility of witnesses.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion for judgment as a matter of law ... in an action tried by jury is [, in essence,] a challenge to the legal sufficiency of the evidence supporting the jury's verdict.”
10 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.