Davlan v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 287 · 1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Byrne v. Board of Education (1992), Cygnar v. City of Chicago (1989)
22 federal appellate · 5 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Bradley v. J. F. Batte & Sons of Richmond, 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a new trial can be granted only when the jury's verdict is against the clear weight of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[I]f reasonable men could differ as to the propriety of the [district] court's action, no abuse of discretion has been shown.' " Davlan v. Otis Elevator Co., 816 F.2d 287 , 289 (7th Cir.1987) (quoting Smith v. Widman Trucking & Excavating, Inc., 627 F.2d 792 , 796 (7th Cir.1980)). In addition, we accord "great deference”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Valbert v. Pass“verdicts ought to be directed and judgments n.o.v. entered only in those cases in which all of the evidence, when viewed in its aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors movant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand.”
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.