Powell v. Levit’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 239 · 1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2012
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 United States v. Mahler · United States v. Cavender · United States v. Alvarez-Lopez · United States v. Sims · Moran v. H. W. S. Lumber Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he erroneous admission of evidence is harmless unless it affects 'the substantial rights of the parties' or is 'inconsistent with substantial justice.' Fed.R.Civ.P. 61.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the result in the case turned almost entirely on the relative credibility of the party-witnesses. Juries often view citizens’ claims of police abuse with skepticism. In this context, the improper introduction of evidence that [the plaintiff] had been a juvenile offender and had been convicted of a felony as an adult was clearly prejudicial to his chances of receiving fair consideration from the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpson v. Thomas
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.