Skaggs v. Otis Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.3d 511 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Baty v. Willamette Industries, Inc. (1999), United States v. Cerrato-Reyes (1999)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Wainwright v. Witt · Smith v. Phillips · McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · United States v. Wood
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Implied bias can be proved by showing that the juror had a 'personal connection to the parties or circumstances of the trial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. State · Sanchez v. State“[w]hen the district court's decision turns on an issue of law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“similarities between the personal experiences of the juror and the issues being litigated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. State · Sanchez v. State
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.