Feinberg v. Mathai’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2011
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Romer v. Baldwin · Rosa v. City of Chester · Gardner v. Vogel
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. at 71. It therefore required a new trial on all issues. 38 But even had the court been satisfied that the jury did not take into consideration an element of compromise, it nevertheless felt that a new trial was dictated. For if there were no compromise 39 then there is little left but to conclude that the jury misunderstood or disobeyed the instructions given it. If that was the case, then there is no reason to believe that the jury actually followed the court's charge on liability. 40 Id. 41 In the circumstances of the case now before us, we conclude that the issue of damages is not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'only in those cases where it is plain that the error which has crept into one element of the verdict did not in any way affect the determination of any other issue.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“possible that the jury interwove testimony concerning liability over into damages, tainting the verdict with elements of compromise.”
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.