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369 F.2d 870 · 1966

Citation profile

102
cited by 102 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
July 2009
most recently cited

75 federal appellate · 2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 102 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009 · most notably City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. (1981), Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989)

75 federal appellate · 2 district ·

56019661970198019902000decided

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 Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. United States · Davis v. United States · Stevenson v. Reed · Charles A. Wright, Inc. v. F. D. Rich Co.

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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “exceptional cases or under peculiar circumstances to prevent a clear miscarriage of justice.”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. ““ * * * No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection. * * * ””
    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.