Yumich v. Cotter’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.2d 59 · 1971
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Yumich v. City of Chicago (1973), United States v. Mahone (1976)
16 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Yeatts · Melvin Carter v. John R. Carlson · Schnell v. City of Chicago
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]here there is likelihood of bias on the part of the person not called as a witness in favor of one party, ‘that person is not, in a true sense, “equally available” to both parties.’ ” Yumich v. Cotter, 452 F.2d 59 , 64 (7th Cir. 1971).”
1 later decision 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.