Coates’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
March 2004
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Hildebrand v. Social Security Administration · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Gooden v. Howard County
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the parties supporting the jury's verdict, is so clear that reasonable persons could reach no other conclusion than that asserted on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. 65 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 43,372, 66 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 43,530 Peggy M. Spicer v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Corrections, and Buckingham Correctional Center David Smith, in His Capacity as the Warden of Buckingham Correctional Center, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections J.M. Perutelli, Captain, Peggy M. Spicer v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Corrections Buckingham Correctional Center David Smith, in His Capacity as the Warden of Buckingham Correctional Center, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections J.M. Perutelli, Captain · 69 Fair empl.prac.cas. (Bna) 1255, 66 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 43,684 Peggy M. Spicer v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Corrections, and Buckingham Correctional Center David Smith, in His Capacity as the Warden of Buckingham Correctional Center, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections J.M. Perutelli, Captain, Peggy M. Spicer v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Corrections Buckingham Correctional Center Buckingham Correctional Center David Smith, in His Capacity as the Warden of Buckingham Correctional Center, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections J.M. Perutelli, Captain
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.