Kirschner v. Broadhead’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 1034 · 1982
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Rascon v. Hardiman (1986), Hodges v. Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services (1993)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Cappaert v. United States · Palace Bar, Inc. v. Fearnot · Wright v. Farmers Co-Op · Oberlin v. Marlin American Corp.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); Kirschner v. Broadhead, 671 F.2d 1034 , 1039-40 (7th Cir.1982) (possibility is not an affirmative basis for a finding of fact). Phrases like”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is prejudicial error for a trial court to give instructions which find no support in the evidence unless the record shows the error [to be] harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The limited nature of such answers, in turn, would have alerted [defendants'] counsel to develop omitted portions of the story on cross-examination. Because [plaintiff's counsel] did not object, [the defendants] very properly considered [the deponent's] in depth narrative sufficient for their purposes and thus dispensed with questions of their own.”
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.