Davis v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 489 · 1976
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Nissho-Iwai Co. v. Occidental Crude Sales, Inc. (1984), Hritz v. Woma Corp. (1984)
34 federal appellate · 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Dallas Railway & Terminal Company v. Gossett · Baez v. S. S. Kresge 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court that finds a verdict excessive may give plaintiff the choice between a new trial and a remittitur in a specified amount.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judge clearly separated the amounts he awarded for each element of damages”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“absence of minimal internal procedural safeguards”
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.