Robertson v. Penn’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 496 So. 2d 270 - Scott v. Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 1 (1986), Robertson v. Penn (1985)
60 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 · 373 So. 2d 498 - Reck v. Stevens · Carter v. CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT, ETC. · Rougeau v. Commercial Union Ins. Co. · 437 So. 2d 1149 - Sciortino v. Alfano
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the facts and inferences point so strongly and overwhelmingly in favor of one party that the Court believes that reasonable men could not arrive at a contrary verdict, granting of the motions is proper. On the other hand, if there is substantial evidence opposed to the motions, that is, evidence of such quality and weight that reasonable and fair-minded men in the exercise of impartial judgment might reach different conclusions, the motions should be denied ...”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“... only when the evidence points so strongly and overwhelmingly in favor of the moving party that reasonable men could not reach different conclusions, not merely when there is a preponderance of evidence for the mover.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“F. The motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict may be granted on the issue of liability or on the issue of damages or on both issues.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.