Joseph Morris, Plaintiffs,-Appellees v. Anthony P. Travisono’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 856 · 1976
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1999 · most notably City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. (1981), Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989)
67 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Wood v. Strickland · Hormel v. Helvering · Trop v. Dulles · O'Connor v. Donaldson · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is to be a plain error exception to Rule 51 at all, it should be confined to the exceptional case where the error has seriously affected the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sparingly and only in exceptional cases or under peculiar circumstances to prevent a clear miscarriage of justice.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . No 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. . . .”
5 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.