Grasmick v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 88 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Lyons v. Jefferson Bank & Trust (1993), Tele-Communications Inc Tci v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1997)
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. · Union Supply Co. v. Pust · Hurd v. American Hoist & Derrick Co. · Hidalgo Properties, Inc. v. Wachovia Mortgage Co. · Martin v. Unit Rig & Equipment 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so patently in favor of the moving party that a jury verdict in favor of the opposing party would be improper and would have to be set aside by the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the procedural measure of the sufficiency of the evidence, [state] law on negligence provides the substantive measure.”
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.