City of Cleveland v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Co.’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 749 · 1980
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Polec v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1996), Arnold IV v. Eastern Air Lines Inc (1982)
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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. § 1292
Relies on South Dakota v. Nebraska · Porter v. United States · Draper v. Airco, Inc. · Hanna M. Ayoub and Margaret Ayoub, His Wife v. Dr. H. N. Spencer, M. D.
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“totality of the circumstances, including the nature of the comments, their frequency, their possible relevancy to the real issues before the jury, the manner in which the parties and the court treated the comments, the strength of the case (e.g. whether it is a close case), and the verdict itself.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable probability that the verdict of a jury has been influenced by such conduct,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he bench and the bar are both aware that cautionary instructions are effective only up to a certain point. There must be a line drawn in any trial where, after repeated exposure of a jury to prejudicial information ... cautionary instructions have little, if any, effect in eliminating the prejudicial harm.”
4 later decisions 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.