Lewis v. Thigpen’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 252 · 1985
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Jackson v. Cain (1989), McDonald v. Steward (1998)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Meachum v. Fano · Olim v. Wakinekona · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Vitek v. Jones
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Issues not demanded for trial by jury as provided in Rule 38 shall be tried by the court; but, notwithstanding the failure of a party to demand a jury in an action in which such a demand might have been made of right, the court in its discretion upon motion may order a trial by a jury of any or all issues.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the facts and inferences point so strongly and overwhelmingly in favor of one party that the Court believes that reasonable men could not arrive at a contrary verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“erroneously denied a jury trial, the error is harmless if the evidence could not have withstood a motion for a directed verdict at trial.”
2 later decisions 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.