Peterson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 573 · 1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2015
2 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Johnson v. Jones · Tanner v. United States · Brame v. United States · Morley Const Co v. Maryland Casualty Co
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court concludes, based on the jury's verdict and comments the jurors made to the court after returning the verdict [and outside the presence of the parties and their respective counsel], that the jury completely disregarded the Court's instructions. Instead, it appears that the jury considered improper factors in reaching its verdict. Accordingly, the Court deems it in the interest of justice to grant a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“palpably absent from the record of the first trial ... is a `great weight of evidence' either way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“extensive evidence ... much of which was in direct conflict.”
1 later decision 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.