Webb v. Goodley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2012
23 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 496 So. 2d 270 - Scott v. Hosp. Serv. Dist. No. 1 · 475 So. 2d 1085 - McDill v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co. · Hart v. Allstate Ins. Co. · Robertson v. Penn · Rougeau v. Commercial Union Ins. Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial court may not weigh the evidence, pass on the credibility of witnesses, or substitute the reasonable inferences of the facts for those of the jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"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.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion for J.N.O.V. may only be granted if the evidence points so strongly and overwhelmingly in favor of the moving party that reasonable men could not arrive at a contrary verdict on the facts at issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.