Traver v. Meshriy’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 934 · 1980
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Gibson v. City of Chicago (1990), Martinez v. Colon (1995)
101 federal appellate · 12 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. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Hagans v. Lavine · Mattox v. United States · Griffin v. State of Maryland
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the potential for confusion of the jury; (2) whether the losing party's defenses apply to the count upon which the verdict is being sustained; (3) the strength of the evidence supporting the count relied upon to sustain the verdict; and (4) the extent to which the same disputed issues of fact apply to the various legal theories.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the reviewing court has discretion to construe a general verdict as attributable to another theory if it was supported by substantial evidence and was submitted to the jury free from error.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“100 [G]ibson himself testified that he responded to Meshriy's [a bank supervisor] call as a police officer rather than as a bank employee. Furthermore, it was established at trial that using off-duty police officers as”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D.T. ex rel. M.T. v. Independent School District No. 16 of Pawnee County · D.T., a Minor, by His Legally Appointed Guardians M.T. And K.T. In Their Own Behalf as Parents and Legal Guardians of D.T. F.H., Jr. A Minor, by His Legally Appointed Guardians F.H. And L.T., in Their Own Behalf as Parents and Legal Guardians of F.H. P.M., a Minor, by His Legally Appointed Guardian R.T., in Her Own Behalf as Parent and Legal Guardian of P.M. v. Independent School District No. 16 of Pawnee County, Oklahoma
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.