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Jennings v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

587 F.3d 430 · 2009

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 18 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. · Neely v. Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc. · Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'cannot displace a jury's verdict merely because [it] disagrees with it' or because 'a contrary verdict may have been equally . . . supportable.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a district court is free to independently weigh the evidence”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “action is required in order to prevent injustice.”
    3 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.