Howard R. Dewitt v. Byron L. Brown, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 516 · 1982
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Gavin v. Heckler (1987), Superior Oil Co. v. Fulmer (1986)
33 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Gray v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a reviewing court is bound to examine the evidence in the light most favorable to the appellee ... and bound to sustain the jury verdict if there is any substantial evidence to support it.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n our opinion, inadequacy or excessiveness of a verdict is basically, and should be, a matter for the trial court which has had the benefit of hearing the testimony and of observing the demeanor of the witnesses and which knows the community and its standards; that this is a responsibility which, for better working of the judicial process and for other seemingly obvious reasons, is best placed upon its shoulders;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of exceptional circumstances, not present in this case, the issue of the excessiveness of a jury verdict must be presented first to the District Court in a motion for a new trial in order to preserve the issue for appellate review.”
2 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.