Giron v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 4 state decisions

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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.

1. “[i]f during a trial by jury a party has been fully heard on an issue and there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find for that party on that issue, the court may determine the issue against that party and may grant a motion for judgment as a matter of law * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gary Lemont v. Estate of Mary Della Ventura · Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation v. Restivo Monacelli LLP

2. “Id. at 1005, 1010 . He grasped the railing to stop himself from falling, but the railing gave way and he fell off the second floor porch to the sidewalk below. Id. We held that evidence as to the existence of defects in the railing and the floor of the porch, the landlord's awareness of such defects, and the landlord's failure to sufficiently warn the tenant constituted”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation v. Restivo Monacelli LLP

3. “the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, without weighing the evidence or evaluating the credibility of witnesses, and draw from the record all reasonable inferences that support the position of the nonmoving party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation v. Restivo Monacelli LLP