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785 F.2d 370 · 1986

Citation profile

44
cited by 44 later decisions
May 2012
most recently cited

27 federal appellate · 10 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Freeman v. Package Machinery Co. (1988), Marrero v. Goya of Puerto Rico, Inc. (2002)

27 federal appellate · 10 district ·

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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 Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Barefoot v. Estelle · Allen v. Zurich Insurance · Thompson v. Oklahoma

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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]t is for jurors, not judges, to weigh the evidence and determine the credibility of witnesses.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “actually reached. Chedd-Angier Production Co. v. Omni Publications International, Ltd., 756 F.2d 930 , 934 (1st Cir.1985).... Where the jury's factual conclusion itself takes the form”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “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.”
    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.