Western Plains Service Corporation v. Ponderosa Development Corporation a H’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 654 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Weese v. Schukman (1996), Specht v. Jensen (1987)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Thomas D. Joyce v. Atlantic Richfield Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation · Symons v. Mueller Co. · Yazzie v. Sullivent · Jaglom v. Commissioner · Jose R. Navato, M.D. v. Ivan W. Sletten, M.D.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party to a contract cannot claim its benefits where he is the first to violate its terms.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court is certain the evidence 'conclusively favors one party such that reasonable men could not arrive at a contrary verdict.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ince the grant of such a motion deprives the non-moving party of the determination of the facts by a jury, judgment notwithstanding the verdict should be cautiously and sparingly granted.”
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.