Sherpy v. Bilyeu’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Burnett v. Griffith (1989), Executive Jet Management & Pilot Service, Inc. v. Scott (1981)
25 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 Blevins v. Cushman Motors · Robbins v. Brown-Strauss Corp. · Rickman Ex Rel. Rickman v. Sauerwein · Sandy Ford Ranch, Inc. v. Dill · Stevens v. Wetterau Foods, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is reserved for those situations in which hatred, passion or prejudice has been engendered causing manifest injustice or a miscarriage of justice ... [and] [p]lain error is not a doctrine available to revive issues already abandoned by selection of trial strategy or by oversight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“revive issues already abandoned by selection of trial strategy or by oversight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.