Johnson v. Houser’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 1049 · 1983
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. v. Aspen Skiing Co. (1984), Commercial Property Investments, Inc. v. Quality Inns International, Inc. (1995)
36 federal appellate · 2 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))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Palmer v. Hoffman · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States · Cleveland v. United States · Putman v. Gerloff
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere tender of an alternative instruction without objecting to some specific error in the trial court's charge or explaining why the proffered instruction better states the law does not preserve the error for appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of Rule 51 is to compel litigants to afford the trial court an opportunity to correct any error in the instructions and also to prevent the losing party from obtaining a new trial through relying on a possible error in the original trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An objection to the failure to give a requested instruction must be 'sufficiently specific to bring into focus the precise nature of the alleged error.'”
3 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.