Wylie v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 1292 · 1974
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Videfreeze Corp. (1976), Ryder v. City of Topeka (1987)
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Graham v. Hodges · Wilkin v. Sunbeam Corp. · Dan F. Thompson v. C. Walton Lillehei, Geraldine B. Thompson v. C. Walton Lillehei · Anderson v. Hudspeth Pine, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a [directed] verdict should be granted, a trial judge must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the opposing party. A directed verdict must not be granted unless the evidence points all one way and cannot be the basis of reasonable inferences which sustain the position of the non-moving party. (Citation.) Also the trial court, when considering a directed verdict motion, may not weigh the evidence or determine where the preponderance of evidence lies. The court should not consider the credibility of witnesses, and only clearly incredible evidence should be excluded from the court’s consideration. (Citation.) 502 F.2d at p. 1294.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the weight which the trier of fact should accord the evidence and [did] ... not make the testimony incredible.”
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.