Winger v. Winger’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2013
5 federal appellate ·
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 Bundrick v. United States · Duckworth v. Franzen · McNabola v. Chicago Transit Authority · 39 Cal. 3d 18 - Tenzer v. Superscope, Inc. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. General Electric 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, the damages are excessive, or if for other reasons the trial was not fair to the moving party.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When issues not raised by the pleadings are tried by express or implied consent of the parties, they shall be treated in all respects as if they had been raised in the pleadings. Such amendment of the pleadings as may be necessary to cause them to conform to the evidence and to raise these issues may be made upon motion of any party at any time, even after judgment; but failure so to amend does not affect the result of the trial of these issues.”
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.