Wheatley v. Gladden’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 1024 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Gairola v. Commonwealth of Virginia Department of General Services (1985), Keller v. Prince George's County (1987)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. · Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. v. McAllister · Guzman v. Pichirilo · United States v. W. M. Webb, 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without weighing the evidence or considering the credibility of the witnesses, 'there can be but one conclusion as to the verdict that reasonable jurors could have reached.'”
20 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.