Payton v. Abbott Labs’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 147 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 26 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Freeman v. Package Machinery Co. (1988), Wagenmann v. Adams (1987)
53 federal appellate · 26 district · 9 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 Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Dimick v. Schiedt · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Harris v. McRae · Pauling v. McElroy
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“set aside a verdict and order a new trial if, in its opinion, the verdict is against the clear weight of the evidence, is based upon evidence that is false, or resulted from some trial error and amounts to a clear miscarriage of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that the physician is not a specialist in the field in which he is giving his opinion affects not the admissibility of his opinion but the weight the jury may place on it.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that was a matter affecting the weight and credibility of [his] testimony,”
3 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.