Skillin v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 19 · 1981
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Haskell v. Kaman Corp. (1984), Fernandez v. Chardon (1982)
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 Ludwig v. Marion Laboratories, Inc. · Cundiff v. Washburn · Barnes v. Brown
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhe only efficient time to cure these possible problems of inconsistency would be after the jury announced the results of its deliberations and before it was excused.... To allow a new trial after the objecting party failed to seek a proper remedy at the only possible time would undermine the incentives for efficient trial procedure and would allow the possible misuse of [the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure] ... to implant a ground for appeal should the jury’s opinion prove distasteful....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only efficient time to cure . . . possible problems of [verdict] inconsistency would be after the jury announced the results of its deliberations and before it was excused”
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.