Cohn v. Papke’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 191 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Coursen v. A.H. Robins Co. (1985), Lockard v. Pizza Hut, Inc. (1998)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · United States v. California · Ed. Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel for Ed Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, H. O'Neil Shanks, and Norman Stevans, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel For · Saia v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here was a clear potential that the jury may have been unfairly influenced by whatever biases and stereotypes they might hold”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an enormous proclivity for humiliation and degradation of a participant in a fashion completely unrelated to testimonial honesty'”
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.