White v. Grinfas’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 1157 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Floyd v. Laws (1991), Ellis v. Weasler Engineering Inc. (2001)
29 federal appellate · 3 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Griffin v. Matherne · Quebe v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Allen v. Allen · Capps v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because all the questions subsequent to question 3 were predicated on an affirmative response to that question, the subsequent answers had to conflict with the answer to question 3, regardless of whether they were also in conflict with each other. To effectuate best the intent of the jury, we hold that if the district court has correctly found that the jury’s answer to a question that was supposed to terminate further inquiry is clear and disposes of the legal issues, on review we must ignore the jury’s necessarily conflicting answers to any other questions. The subsequent questions are by definition irrelevant in these circumstances, and cannot be used to impeach the jury’s clear verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test of consistency is whether the answers may fairly be said to represent a logical and probable decision on the relevant issues as submitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to reconcile the answers, if possible, in order to validate the jury's verdict”
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.