Miller v. Poretsky’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 780 · 1978
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 22 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Joy v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (1993), United States v. Foskey (1980)
36 federal appellate · 22 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2111 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 3601 (§ 801 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3604 (§ 804 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · United States v. Nixon
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s long as a district judge's instructions are legally correct ... he is not required to give them in any particular language,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“probative value of and need for the evidence against the harm likely to result from its admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.