Reichenbach v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 1072 · 1976
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Quick v. Crane (1986), Big O Tire Dealers, Inc., a Colorado Corporation v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation (1977)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Alford v. United States · Desist v. United States · Turner v. Louisiana · Gordon v. United States
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.
“to prove liability for or invalidity of the claim or its amount.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not require exclusion when the evidence is offered for another purpose (other than proving the existence of defects),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“With today's burgeoning dockets and the absolute impossibility of Courts ever beginning to think that they might even be able to hear every case, the cause of justice is advanced by settlement compromises [shepherded] by competent counsel, whose experience as advocates makes them reliable predictors of litigation were it pursued to the bitter end”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'CONNOR
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.