Linskey v. Hecker’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 199 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · United States v. Kiendra · United States v. Grandmont · Grady E. Shows v. The M/v Red Eagle, Platform Coating Services, Inc., Lawrence-Allison & Associates Corporation and Chevron Usa, Inc. · United States v. Nevitt
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]mbarassment of witnesses and prejudice to parties other than criminal defendants were thought insufficient reasons to exclude such evidence, which Congress considered highly probative of a witness's credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the district court could have excluded the evidence under Rule 403, the court did not abuse its discretion in declining to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.