Houston v. Herring’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 347 · 1977
Citation profile
38 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably United States v. Evans (1978), Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co. (1978)
38 federal appellate ·
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 Davis v. Alaska · Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. · Troutman v. Southern Railway Co. · Kyzar v. Vale Do Ri Doce Navegacai, S. A.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The test is not whether the charge was faultless in every particular but whether the jury was misled in any way and whether it had understanding of the issues and its duty to determine those issues.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no harmful error if the charge in general correctly instructs, even if one portion is technically incorrect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davarpanah v. Jc Penney Company Davarpanah · Pavarneh Davarpanah v. J.C. Penney Company, (Two Cases) Pavarneh Davarpanah Sunny Patten Beverly A. Lindblad, and Eileen Glass v. J.C. Penney Company, Eileen Glass Beverly A. Lindblad Sunny Patten v. J.C. Penney Company, Pavarneh Davarpanah Beverly A. Lindblad Sunny Patten v. J.C. Penney Company“erroneous instructions are not cured by correct instructions in other portions of the charge when 'the charge leaves us with substantial and ineradicable doubt whether the jury has been properly guided in its deliberation.'”
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.