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Batesole v. Stratford’s Empirical Analysis

505 F.2d 804 · 1974

Citation profile

73
cited by 73 later decisions
1
states following
October 2010
most recently cited

55 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Smiddy v. Wedding Party, Inc. (1987), Mussivand v. David (1989)

55 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

41019741980199020002010decided

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 McNello v. John B. Kelly, Inc. · Olson v. Westerberg · Mikula v. Tailors · Peters v. B. & F. Transfer 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “and required action by the reviewing court”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[n]o 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
  3. “In reviewing a federal district court's charge to the jury in a diversity action, it is well settled that the substance of the instructions is controlled by the applicable state law....”
    2 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.