Wilson v. Groaning’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.3d 581 · 1994
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Rios v. Bigler (1995), United States v. Westbrook (1997)
23 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Darden v. Wainwright · Pelaes v. United States · Greer v. Miller · Lawrence v. United States · TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We normally presume that a jury will follow an instruction to disregard inadmissible evidence inadvertently presented to it, unless there is an overwhelming probability that the jury will be unable to follow the court's instructions, and a strong likelihood that the effect of the evidence would be devastating to the defendant.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“highly inflammatory and totally irrelevant”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It "might be prejudicial to overload the factfinder ... [by] put[ting] in all the convictions because [the jury] might well determine that as a result of having that many convictions, that regardless of how the facts come out, that [the plaintiff-prisoner] is a person not deserving of any relief."”
2 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.