Braun v. Flynt’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 1205 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Rutherford v. Harris County (1999), Ward v. Succession of Freeman (1988)
27 federal appellate · 3 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 United New York & New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Ass'n v. Halecki · E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Berkley & Co. · Collum v. Butler · Dorothy Mae Gardner v. General Motors Corporation, Mazie M. Johnson v. General Motors Corporation, Alice J. Van Lewen, Individually v. General Motors Cororation · Braun v. Flynt
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reasonably certain that the jury was not significantly influenced by issues erroneously submitted to it.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here two [or more] claims have been submitted to the jury ... in a single interrogatory, a new trial may be required if one of the claims was submitted erroneously,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woods v. Sammisa Co.“created a false impression of her and damaged her reputation.”
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.