Hansen v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably State v. Pena (1994), Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange (1991)
39 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 Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Franklin Financial v. New Empire Development Co. · Diehl v. Zanger · Von Hake v. Thomas · Price-Orem Investment Co. v. Rollins, Brown & Gunnell, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'must marshal all the evidence supporting the verdiet' and then show that the evidence cannot support the verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Ain insufficiency-of-the-evidence based challenge to a denial of either [a JNOV or new trial] motion is governed by one standard of review: we reverse only if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the party who prevailed, we conclude that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does permit us to review instructional errors in the interests of justice ... “it is incumbent upon the aggrieved party to present a persuasive reason” for exercising that discretion ... and this requires “showing special circumstances warranting such a review.””
2 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.