Sam's Style Shop v. Cosmos Broadcasting Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 998 · 1982
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Green v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (2002), Wells v. Hico Independent School District (1984)
28 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Desist v. United States · Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp. · Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road · Rose v. Lundy
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is no such abuse of discretion unless there is a complete absence of evidence to support the verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In reviewing a jury award, we are actually, of course, reviewing the district court’s denial of a motion for a new trial or remittitur. Because the district court has a wide range for discretion in acting on such motions, our standard of review is not simply right or wrong but abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The jurisprudence establishes that only those potestative conditions which are dependent solely upon the will, whim, or caprice of the obligor invalidate the contract. * * * If the condition shows on its face that the obligor may or may not fulfill his obligation as per his desire, then the obligation is null. However, if the condition imposes on the obligor the duty of making a sincere effort to fulfill the obligation, then the fact that the obligor is in a position to hinder or prevent the execution of the contract does not make the contract null. * * * [T]he obligor has the duty to reasonably perform the condition which is a condition precedent to the obligation.”
1 later decision 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.