Lytle v. Household Manufacturing, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
252 federal appellate · 153 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 709 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), California v. Acevedo (1991)
252 federal appellate · 153 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · United States v. Mendenhall · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Montana v. United States · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation
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 709 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When legal and equitable claims are joined in the same action, the right to jury trial on the legal claim, including all issues common to both claims, remains intact.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[c]redibility determinations, the weighing of evidence, and the drawing of legitimate inferences from the facts are jury functions, not those of a judge.... The evidence of the nonmovant is to be believed, and all justifiable inferences are to be drawn in his favor”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relitigation is the only mechanism that can completely correct the error of the court below.”
4 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.