Fernandez v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 485 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2001
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Brower v. United States · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Haines v. Kerner · Maryland ex rel. Levin v. United States · Travis 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the charge as given is correct and sufficiently covers the case so that a jury can intelligently determine the questions presented to it, the judgment will not be disturbed because further amplification is refused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“what factual inferences best are left to argument of counsel and the common sense of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequately acquainted the jurors with appellant's theory of the case,”
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.