Reeves v. Power Tools, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 375 · 1973
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably Chappell v. GTE Products Corp. (1986), Morelock v. NCR Corp. (1978)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Ford Motor Company v. Lonon · Ford Motor v. Wagoner · Ginsburg v. Insurance Co. of North America · Greer v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Judgment notwithstanding the verdict is not proper unless the evidence is such that there can be but one reasonable conclusion as to the proper verdict. It should not be granted if there is a conflict in the evidence, and credibility of [the] evidence is not to be considered in passing on a motion for judgment. * * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“without substantial change in the condition in which it (was) sold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user”
1 later decision 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.