Grant v. Preferred Research, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 795 · 1989
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Venters v. City of Delphi (1997), Robinson v. Johnson (2002)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Sunkist Growers, Inc. v. Winckler & Smith Citrus Products Co. · American National Bank of Jacksonville v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Kicklighter v. Nails by Jannee, 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court has held that the purpose of Rule 8(c) is to give the opposing party notice of the affirmative defense and a chance to rebut it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the jury delivers a verdict based upon several possible grounds, one of which ... was improperly submitted to the jury, and the appellate court has no means of determining on what basis the jury reached its verdict, the verdict must be reversed and remanded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Narey v. Dean“In pleading to a preceding pleading, a party shall set forth affirmatively ... fraud ... and any other matter constituting an avoidance or affirmative defense.”
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.