Stewart v. Thigpen’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 1002 · 1984
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Rankin v. Evans (1998), Osuchukwu v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1984)
29 federal appellate · 3 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. · Williams v. Edwards · Willis v. Ciccone
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our inquiry is restricted to whether there was any evidence to support the jury's verdict, irrespective of its sufficiency, or whether plain error was committed which, if not noticed, would result in manifest miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the record contains any competent and substantial evidence fairly tending to support the verdict ... even if different inferences and conclusions also might be supported by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“competent and substantial evidence fairly tending to support the verdict ... even if different inferences and conclusions also might be supported by the evidence.”
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.