Schafer v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 1361 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2017
13 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
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Johnson v. Bryant · United States v. Pool
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial judge is entitled to wide discretion over the style and wording employed as long as the instructions accurately reflect the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an essential element of a charge, claim or defense,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Schafer v. Time, Inc., 142 F.3d 1361 , 1371 (11th Cir.1998); see also United States v. Keiser, 57 F.3d 847 , 856 & n. 20 (9th Cir.1995); Perrin v. Anderson, 784 F.2d 1040 , 1045 (10th Cir.1986) (citing McCormick on Evidence § 187 at 551 (3d ed.1984)). The advisory committee's notes to the Federal Rules of Evidence provide two examples in which character evidence constitutes such an essential element:”
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.