Williams v. Rene’s Empirical Analysis
72 F.3d 1096 · 1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Better Building Maintenance of the Virgin Islands, Inc. v. Lee (2014), Wilburn v. Maritrans GP Inc. (1998)
5 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Builders Supply Co. v. McCabe · Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Videfreeze Corp. · International Business Machines Corp. v. Edelstein · DeMarines v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)(1) If during a trial by jury a party has been fully heard on an issue and there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find for that party on that issue, the court may determine the issue against that party and may grant a motion for judgment as a matter of law against that party. . . (2) Motions for judgment as a matter of law may be made at any time before submission of the case to the jury. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[c]onduct of a servant is within the scope of employment if, but only if: (a) it is of the kind he is employed to perform; (b) it occurs substantially within the authorized time and space limits; (c) it is actuated, at least in part, by a purpose to serve the master, and (d) if force is intentionally used by the servant against another, the use of force is not unexpectable by the master.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the issue of damages . . . is so intertwined with liability that one cannot be submitted to the jury independently of the other without confusion and uncertainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 00-3297
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.