Dupre v. Fru-Con Engineering Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.3d 329 · 1997
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Cross v. Cleaver (1998), Russell v. Plano Bank & Trust (1997)
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 636
Relies on Reves v. Ernst & Young · Neshewat v. Hagstrom · Wyshak v. American Savings Bank, F.A. · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Louisiana · Consolidated Rail Corp. v. LeStrange
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless that party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our law on this subject is crystal clear: to preserve an argument concerning a jury instruction for appellate review, a party must state distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds for the objection on the record.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Repetitious instructions that place undue emphasis on a certain aspect of a party's case so as to prejudice the jury require reversal.”
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.