Posner v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Alonzo Wayne Taylor v. The Washington Terminal Company · Feldman v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission · Romer v. District of Columbia · Brown v. Richard H. Wacholz, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have often warned trial judges to exercise great caution in allowing jurors to impeach their own verdicts”) (citations omitted). Furthermore, we have said that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Purcell v. Thomas
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.