Kelley v. Crunk’s Empirical Analysis
713 F.2d 426 · 1983
Citation profile
39 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Craft v. Metromedia, Inc. (1985), UniGroup, Inc. v. O'Rourke Storage & Transfer Co. (1992)
39 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 Singleton v. Wulff · Davis v. Alaska · Fireman's Fund Insurance v. AALCO Wrecking Co. · Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., a Corporation, Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Douglas H. Huber
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.
“exceptional cases where the obvious result would be a plain miscarriage of justice or inconsistent with substantial justice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The argument that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence is one particularly directed to the district court in a motion for new trial under Rule 59 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
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.