Dace v. ACF Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 374 · 1983
Citation profile
171 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Smith v. City of Jackson (2005), Mendoza v. Borden, Inc. (1999)
171 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Francis 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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) resolve direct factual conflicts in favor of the nonmovant, (2) assume as true all facts supporting the nonmovant which the evidence tended to prove, (3) give the nonmovant the benefit of all reasonable inferences, and (4) deny the motion if the evidence so viewed would allow reasonable jurors to differ as to the conclusions that could be drawn.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. White · Porm v. White“A directed verdict is in order only where the evidence points all one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences sustaining the position of the nonmoving party.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] motion for directed verdict is properly denied where the evidence presented allows reasonable men in a fair exercise of their judgment to draw different conclusions * * *. In making this determination, the evidence, together with all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. White · Porm v. White
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.