Chuman v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 292 · 1996
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Blankenhorn v. City of Orange (2007), Gilbrook v. City of Westminster (1999)
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Sobin v. United States · Melear v. Spears · Larez v. Holcomb · James James v. Tg Sadler
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jury instructions must be formulated so that they fairly and adequately cover the issues presented, correctly state the law, and are not misleading.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muhammad v. Er Meyers · Paul Gilbrook Michael Garrison Don Herr Hal Raphael Dana Bowler Joe Wilson, Davis, Reno & Courtney, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. City of Westminster Charles v. Smith Craig Schweisinger Tony Lam Don S. Anderson John T. Demonaco Brian Mayhew, Paul Gilbrook Michael Garrison Don Herr Hal Raphael Dana Bowler Westminster Fire Fighters Association, Local 2425 Joe Wilson International Association of Fire Fighters, Afl-Cio, Davis, Reno & Courtney, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. City of Westminster Charles v. Smith Craig Schweisinger Tony Lam Don S. Anderson John T. Demonaco Brian Mayhew, Paul Gilbrook Michael Garrison Don Herr Hal Raphael Dana Bowler Westminster Fire Fighters Association, Local 2425 International Association of Fire Fighters, Afl-Cio Joe Wilson, Davis, Reno & Courtney, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. City of Westminster Charles v. Smith Craig Schweisinger Tony Lam Don S. Anderson John T. Demonaco Brian Mayhew“[i]f a jury instruction is erroneous, we will reverse the judgment unless the error is more probably than not harmless.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is an improper ... alternative ground for liability. It removes individual liability as the issue and allows a jury to find a defendant liable on the ground that even if the defendant had no role in the unlawful conduct, he would nonetheless be guilty if the conduct was the result of a “team effort.””
3 later decisions 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.