Alarid v. Vanier’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 297 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 308 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager (1971), 25 Cal. 3d 932 - Agarwal v. Johnson (1979)
6 federal appellate · 297 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 Green v. General Petroleum 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 308 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No precise formula can be drawn for deciding whether there has been a miscarriage of justice. In each instance the determination whether the probable effect of an instruction has been to mislead the jury and whether the error has been prejudicial so as to require a reversal depends upon all the circumstances, including the evidence and the other instructions given....””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benson v. Brady
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.