Robinson v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.3d 507 · 1998
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Smith v. Chrysler Corp. (1998), United States v. Talley (1999)
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · United States v. Bonds · Kline v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Abrams v. Lightolier Inc. · Mary J. Riordan v. William L. Kempiners and Shirley Randolph
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.
“Unfair prejudice does not mean the damage to a defendant's case that results from the legitimate probative force of the evidence; rather it refers to evidence which tends to suggest a decision on an improper basis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rarely will there be direct evidence from the lips of the defendant proclaiming his or her ... animus,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any tendency to make the existence of any fact . . . more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
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.