Wilson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.3d 1078 · 1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Rose v. Clark · Luce v. United States · United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Corallo v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party cannot ... blow 'hot and cold' during the course of litigation. When a party assumes a certain position in a legal proceeding and succeeds in maintaining that position, he may not thereafter assume a contrary position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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