Mackey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 826 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Scott v. District of Columbia (1996), Barbour v. Merrill (1995)
19 federal appellate · 12 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 Herrmann v. United States · Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona · Richardson ex rel. Richardson v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc. · Carter v. Duncan-Huggins, Ltd. · Coburn v. Pan American World Airways, 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ntru[sion] upon the rightful province of the jury . . . is highly disfavored. We have repeatedly emphasized that `[t]he jury's verdict must stand unless the evidence, together with all inferences that can reasonably be drawn therefrom is so one-sided that reasonable [people] could not disagree on the verdict.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evaluate[s] de novo whether appellant proffered sufficient evidence upon which a jury could properly base a verdict in her favor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e cannot substitute our judgment for that of the jury; therefore, we neither assess witness credibility nor weigh the evidence.”
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.