Decker-Ruhl Ford Sales, Inc. v. Ford Motor Credit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 833 · 1975
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Dace v. ACF Industries, Inc. (1983), Holley v. Sanyo Manufacturing, Inc. (1985)
45 federal appellate · 3 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 Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Patterson v. United States · Wood v. Strickland · United States v. Tucker
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a directed verdict should be granted only when all the evidence points one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences sustaining the position of the nonmoving party.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence, together with all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party,”
3 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.