Conway v. Electro Switch Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 593 · 1987
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 43 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Loeffler v. Frank (1988), Ercegovich v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1998)
99 federal appellate · 43 district · 9 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Raphan v. United States · Commissioner v. Engle · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · United States v. California
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge may not grant a motion for a new trial merely because he or she might have reached a conclusion contrary to that of the jurors, rather, the trial judge may set aside a jury’s verdict only if he or she believes that the outcome is against the clear weight of the evidence such that upholding the verdict will result in a miscarriage of justice.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[it] does tend to add 'color' to the employer's decision making processes and to the influences behind the actions taken with respect to the individual plaintiff.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“only after a determination that the evidence could lead a reasonable person to only one conclusion,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.