Jordan v. Medley’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 211 · 1983
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 22 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Barth v. Gelb (1993), Schrand v. Federal Pacific Electric Co. (1988)
42 federal appellate · 22 district · 12 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 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba · New Orleans Co v. Jopes
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'assessment of the likelihood that the error affected the outcome of the case.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f one cannot say, with fair assurance ... that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error, it is impossible to conclude that substantial rights were not affected.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Application of this test is highly sensitive to the unique context of the particular case, including the one-sided or closely balanced nature of the evidence bearing upon the issue which the error arguably affected ... and the centrality of that issue to the ultimate deci sion.”
4 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.