Christopher v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.3d 1360 · 2006
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Gowski v. Peake (2012), Proctor v. Fluor Enterprises, Inc. (2007)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. · Rowell v. United States · Johnson v. Brown · Burlington Northern Railroad v. Woods
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]ranting motions for new trial touches on the trial court's traditional equity power to prevent injustice and the trial judge's duty to guard the integrity and fairness of the proceedings before [her].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Defense counsel did not object to this argument at trial. But “where the interest of substantial justice is at stake, improper argument may be the basis for a new trial even if no objection has been raised.” McWhorter [v. City of Birmingham], 906 F.2d [674], at 677 [ (11th Cir. 1990)]; See Fed. R. Crv. P. 61 (setting out substantial justice standard).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a Defendant fails to pursue his motion for a new trial with the district court after the court grants JMOL without making the alternative ruling required by Fed.R.Civ.P. 50(c)(1), and the Defendant fails to argue for a new trial ruling on appeal, this Court has treated the issue as abandoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings v. Jones
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.