Nealis v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States of America v. Nelly Marguerite Schmitt Degasso (2004), Keating v. Edmondson (2001)
4 federal appellate · 66 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 Roe v. Wade · 19 Cal. 3d 564 - Justus v. Atchison · Dowling v. Finley Associates, Inc. · Summerfield v. Superior Court, Maricopa Cty. · Smith v. Brennan
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.
“it is properly raised in the pleadings or otherwise, submitted for determination, and in fact determined,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“No judgment shall be set aside or new trial granted by any appellate court of this state in any case, civil or criminal, on the ground of misdirection of the jury or for error in any matter of pleading or procedure, unless it is the opinion of the reviewing court that the error complained of has probably resulted in a miscarriage of justice, or constitutes a substantial violation of a constitutional or statutory right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a judgment in an action of legal cognizance is determined by an appellate court in light of the evidence tending to support it, together with every reasonable inference deducible therefrom, rejecting all evidence adduced by the adverse party which”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.