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646 F.2d 22 · 1981

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
2
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Scarpa (1990), Krause v. Ro Bennett (1989)

29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

2801981199020002010decided

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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Santoni v. United States · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “alert the trial judge to errors in the charge so they can be corrected before the jury retires.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[i]t is well settled that on direct review an appellate court must apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision, unless doing so would cause manifest injustice.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Under New York law, a plaintiff in a medical malpractice action must produce medical testimony to establish the proper standard of care.”
    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.