Poulin v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 979 · 1994
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Aetna Casualty Surety Co. v. P & B Autobody (1994), Smith v. Kmart Corp. (1999)
43 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 Granito v. United States · Granito v. United States · Mack v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Mansell v. Mansell · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless that party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plain error rule should be applied sparingly and only in exceptional cases or under peculiar circumstances to prevent a clear miscarriage of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because of the [appellants'] failure to comply with Rule 51, we review the trial court's instructions only for plain error.”
3 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.