Latino v. Kaizer’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.3d 310 · 1995
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Innogenetics, N.V. v. Abbott Laboratories (2008), Davis v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections (2006)
16 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Baltimore & Carolina Line, Inc. v. Redman · Williamson v. Consolidated Rail Corp. · Williams v. City of Valdosta · United States v. One 1976 Mercedes Benz 280S, Serial No. 11602012072193
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a] motion for a new trial should succeed 'only if the verdict is against the manifest weight of the evidence.' " ABM Marking, Inc. v. Zanasi Fratelli, S.R.L. , 353 F.3d 541 , 545 (7th Cir. 2003) (quoting Lowe v. Consol. Freightways of Del., Inc., 177 F.3d 640 , 641 (7th Cir. 1999) ); Latino v. Kaizer , 58 F.3d 310 , 315 (7th Cir. 1995) ("[N]ew trials granted because the verdict is against the weight of the evidence are proper only when the record shows that the jury's verdict resulted in a miscarriage of justice or where the verdict, on the record, cries out to be overturned or shocks our conscience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is an invasion of the jury's province to grant a new trial merely because the evidence was sharply in conflict.”
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.