Vander Zee v. Karabatsos’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 723 · 1978
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 14 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Tavoulareas v. Piro (1987), Richardson ex rel. Richardson v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc. (1988)
59 federal appellate · 14 district · 10 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 Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Pauling v. McElroy · Neely v. Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc. · Lind v. Schenley Industries Inc. · Alonzo Wayne Taylor v. The Washington Terminal Company
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“charge], together with all inferences that can reasonably be drawn therefrom[,] is so one-sided [in favor of the Post] that reasonable men could not disagree on the verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Unless the evidence, along with all inferences reasonably to be drawn therefrom, when viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff is such that reasonable jurors in fair and impartial exercise of their judgment could not reasonably disagree in finding for the defendant, the motion must be denied.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the concern that a judge's nullification of the jury's verdict may encroach on the jury's important fact-finding function.”
5 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.