Kern v. Levolor Lorentzen, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 772 · 1990
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 317 - Guz v. Bechtel National, Inc. (2000), Hurley v. Atlantic City Police Department (1999)
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Quercia v. United States · 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. · Ford Motor Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Comunale v. Traders & General Insurance · 36 Cal. 3d 752 - Seaman's Direct Buying Service, Inc. v. Standard Oil 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construe a general verdict as attributable to one of several theories if it was supported by substantial evidence and was submitted to the jury free from error.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the potential for confusion of the jury; (2) whether the losing party's defenses apply to the count upon which the verdict is being sustained; (3) the strength of the evidence supporting the count relied upon to sustain the verdict; and (4) the extent to which the same disputed issues of fact apply to the various legal theories.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence and its inferences, considered as a whole and viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, can support only one reasonable conclusion--that the moving party is entitled to judgment notwithstanding the adverse verdict.”
3 later decisions 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.