Hibiscus Associates Ltd v. Board of Trustees of Policemen and Firemen Retirement System of City of Detroit Hibiscus Associates Ltd M a B’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 908 · 1995
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Mendoza v. Borden, Inc. (1999), Gold v. City of Miami (1998)
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Salem v. United States Lines Company
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xpert testimony is properly excluded when it is not needed to clarify facts and issues of common understanding which jurors are able to comprehend for themselves.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he amount of the fee award has not been determined,' a district court order granting attorney's fees 'is not final.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘[a] covenant is dependant where it goes to the whole consideration of the contract; where it is such an essential part of the bargain that the failure of it must be considered destroying the entire contract; or where it is such an indispensable part of what both parties intended that the contract would not have been made with the covenant omitted ... ’”
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.