Monahan v. Flannery’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 678 · 1985
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · American Tobacco Co. v. Patterson · Board of Water Works Trustees of City of Des Moines Iowa v. Alvord Burdick & Howson · Stewart v. Ford Motor Co. · Mumma v. Reading Company
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party is not entitled 'to have the jury instructed in any particular language, so long as the jurors understand the issues and are not misled.' (citations omitted). A district judge has broad discretion in the choice of form and language....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“quite possible that the jury could have believed that the [legal duty] was, in fact not a specific duty by law, but, instead, merely an allegation of negligence by plaintiffs”
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.