McCarty v. Pheasant Run, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 1554 · 1987
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Lambert v. Genesee Hospital (1993), In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Incorporated (1995)
39 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 East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · 85 Ill. 2d 1 - Alvis v. Ribar · Micallef v. Miehle Co. · United States v. Carroll Towing Co. · Prentis v. Yale Manufacturing 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After both motions for directed verdict (the plaintiff’s on contributory negligence, and the defendant’s on negligence) were denied, the defendant had no reason to think it hadn’t put in enough evidence to get to the jury on the issue of liability. If the plaintiff thought otherwise she had to move for a directed verdict on that issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGill v. Duckworth“The modern rationale for the rule that a motion for directed verdict is a prerequisite to judgment n.o.v. is that the opposing party should have a chance to rectify (or at least seek the court’s leave to rectify) deficiencies in his evidence before it is too late, that is, before the case goes to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGill v. Duckworth
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.