Carson v. Polley’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 562 · 1982
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 323 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Howard v. King (1983), O'Neill v. Krzeminski (1988)
81 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Foman v. Davis · Santoni v. United States · Mattox v. United States · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · United States v. Beechum
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 323 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A litigant's failure to assert a claim as soon as he could have is properly a factor to be considered in deciding whether to grant leave to amend. Merely because a claim was not presented as promptly as possible, however, does not vest the district court with authority to punish the litigant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence on the private thought processes of individual jurors will not be received. The subjective thoughts and emotions that may have influenced a juror's deliberations are shielded from inquiry.... Evidence of extraneous matters that may have reached the jury and affected its deliberations, however, may be offered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to help [a] witness explain his or her testimony.”
2 later decisions 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.