Bender v. Brumley’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 271 · 1993
Citation profile
55 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Mijalis (1994), Siglar II v. Hightower (1997)
55 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Kotteakos v. United States · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial and ineradicable doubt whether the jury has been properly guided in its deliberations.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“based upon the record ... the challenged instruction could not have affected the outcome of the case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We afford trial judges wide latitude in fashioning jury instructions and ignore technical imperfections,”
2 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.