White’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2018
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Chardon v. Fumero Soto · Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Whitworth Bros. Storage Co. · United States Football League Usfl Imi Laefc v. National Football League Nfl R · Fernandez v. Chardon · Stancill v. McKenzie Tank Lines, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“promote[s] the efficiency of trials by allowing the original deliberating body to reconcile inconsistencies without the need for another presentation of the evidence to a new body.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Answers Inconsistent with Each Other and the Verdict. When the answers are inconsistent with each other and one or more is also inconsistent with the general verdict, judgment must not be entered; instead, the court must direct the jury to further consider its answers and verdict, or must order a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to object to any asserted inconsistencies in the response to jury interrogatories prior to the discharge of the jury,”
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.