Bashir v. Amtrak’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 929 · 1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Mann v. Taser International, Inc. (2009), Josendis v. Wall to Wall Residence Repairs, Inc. (2011)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Easterwood · Aramburu v. Boeing Co. · Vick v. Texas Employment Commission
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an adverse inference is drawn from a party's failure to preserve evidence only when the absence of that evidence is predicated on bad faith”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]ere negligence in losing or destroying the records is not enough for an adverse inference, as it does not sustain an inference of consciousness of a weak case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dodson v. Belk, Inc.
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.