Ohio-Sealy Mattress Manufacturing Co. v. Sealy, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 821 · 1978
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Benson v. Allphin (1986)
102 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 Dandridge v. Williams · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, 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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny actual issues necessarily and actually decided by the jury are foreclosed under settled principles of collateral estoppel from subsequent reconsideration by the district court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he application of Rule 50(b) in any case 'should be examined in the light of the accomplishment of [its] particular purpose[s] as well as in the general context of securing a fair trial for all concerned in the quest for truth.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“total mix of equitable relief, if any, might be just in the circumstances.”
2 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.