Larez v. Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis
16 F.3d 1513 · 1994
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Berry v. City of Detroit (1994), Lambert v. Ackerley (1998)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Farrar v. Hobby · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Pledger v. Medlock · ITT Continental Baking Co. v. William Inglis & Sons Baking 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An error in a trial court's jury instructions relating to the parties' respective burdens of proof ordinarily [requires] reversal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provides a strong indication that the jury did not find the [officer's] account persuasive,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Murdock · Murdock v. Stout
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.