Lyons v. Barrazotto’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Lively v. Flexible Packaging Ass'n (2003), District of Columbia v. Harris (2001)
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 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 Pauling v. McElroy · California v. Arizona · Lind v. Schenley Industries Inc. · Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Yeatts · New York Life Ins. v. Taylor
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen acting on a motion for new trial, the trial judge need not view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. “Indeed, the judge can, in effect, be the ‘thirteenth juror’; he [or she] may ‘weigh evidence, disbelieve witnesses, and grant a new trial even where there is substantial evidence to sustain the verdict.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that different considerations apply in our review of the granting of a new trial than where such a motion has been denied. While the scope of our review is still limited, we have a greater duty here, where the trial court has to a certain extent substituted its judgment for that of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hummer v. Levin“[w]here the court grants a new trial because the verdict is against the clear weight of the evidence, we will scrutinize to assure that the trial court did not simply accept one version of the facts over another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hummer v. Levin
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.