Toth v. Yoder Co.’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 1190 · 1984
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Gafford v. General Electric Co. (1993), J.c. Wyckoff & Associates, Inc. v. The Standard Fire Insurance Company (1991)
54 federal appellate · 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 Bullock v. United States · Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Donovan v. Penn Shipping Co. · Morelock v. NCR Corp. · Abel v. Eli Lilly & Co.
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not be granted unless reasonable minds could not differ as to the conclusions to be drawn from the evidence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a diversity case, the question of whether a new trial is to be granted is a federal procedural question and is to be decided by reference to federal law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“weigh the evidence, pass on the credibility of witnesses, or substitute its judgment for that of the jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.