DeVasto v. Faherty’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 859 · 1981
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Carson v. Polley (1982), Bordanaro v. McLeod (1989)
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Wong Sun v. United States · Payton v. New York · Wood v. Strickland
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.
“must be made in the context of the case as gleaned from the record as a whole.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The motion is properly granted only when, as a matter of law, no conclusion but one can be drawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the ruling was harmless error or affected a substantial right of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guzman v. Boeing Co.
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.