Burrage v. Harrell’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 837 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Johnson v. Celotex Corp. (1990), McNely v. Ocala Star-Banner Corp. (1996)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Har-Pen Truck Lines, Inc. v. Mills · Baron Tube Company, the Partnership of Hyman Baron and Jay Baron and Hyman Baron, Individually v. The Transport Insurance 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant asserts that the trial court erred in overruling her objection to ap-pellee’s alleged ‘golden rule’ closing argument. Appellant’s reliance on the ‘golden rule’ cases is misplaced: they deal with arguments in which the jury is exhorted to place itself in a party’s shoes with respect to damages. See, e.g., Skaggs v. J.H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., 435 F.2d 695 (5th Cir.1970); Har-Pen Truck Lines, Inc. v. Mills, 378 F.2d 705, 714 (5th Cir.1967). The rationale for prohibiting such an argument is that the jury’s sympathy will be unfairly aroused, resulting in a disproportionate award of damages, e.g., id.; Baron Tube Co. v. Transport Insurance Co., 365 F.2d 858, 862 (5th Cir.1966).””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n this case the argument complained of was not in any way directed to the question of damages; rather it related only to the reasonableness of appellee's actions.”
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.