Bunch v. Walter’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 127 · 1982
Citation profile
45 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Mozingo v. Correct Manufacturing Corp. (1985), Polanco v. City of Austin (1996)
45 federal appellate ·
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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Gerry v. United States · Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. · Miller v. Universal City Studios, 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will reject a verdict in those instances when, despite considering all the evidence in the light and with all reasonable inference most favorable to the verdict, we find no evidence of such quality and weight that reasonable and fair-minded men in the exercise of impartial discretion could arrive at the same conclusion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question before this Court is not whether there was substantial evidence to support the jury verdict, but whether there was any evidence to support the jury verdict”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to establish an abuse of discretion the [plaintiffs] must show 'an absolute absence of evidence to support the jury's verdict.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dawsey v. Olin Corp.
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.