Lataille v. Ponte’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 33 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Taylor v. Virginia Union University (1999), Maillet v. ATF-Davidson Co. (1990)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Michigan v. Clifford · United States v. Moccia · United States v. Fosher · United States v. Morris
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he centrality of the evidence, its prejudicial effect, whether it is cumulative, the use of the evidence by counsel and the closeness of the case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can say ‘with fair assurance ... that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that prior acts may not be admitted to prove that a person acted in a similar fashion in the case at hand.”
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.