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938 F.2d 502 · 1991

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
3
states following
June 2021
most recently cited

26 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Cline v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1998), Trandes Corporation v. Guy F. Atkinson Company, and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (1993)

26 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions

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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 Foman v. Davis · Tull v. United States · Browning-Ferris Industries of Vermont, Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc. · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · Mississippi v. Turner

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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “against the clear weight of the evidence, or is based upon evidence which is false, or will result in a miscarriage of justice.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Walker v. Walker F Walker · Defender Industries Incorporated v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
  2. “to determine if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the party [who] oppos[ed] the motion, [the] jury could reasonably find in favor of that party.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Livingston Chemicals, Incorporated v. Permviro Systems, Incorporated · Atlas Food Systems and Services Incorporated v. Crane National Vendors Incorporated
  3. “we hold that the seventh amendment guarantees the right to a jury determination of the amount of punitive damages”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Mattison v. Dallas Carrier Corp. · Atlas Food Systems and Services Incorporated v. Crane National Vendors Incorporated

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.