Petty v. Ideco Division of Dresser Industries Inc’s Empirical Analysis
761 F.2d 1146 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Freeman v. Package Machinery Co. (1988), Peteet v. Dow Chemical Co. (1989)
53 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hanna v. Plumer · Bates v. State Bar · Buckley v. American Federation of Television & Radio Artists · Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories · Collins v. Wayne Corp.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party whose motion in limine is overruled must renew his objection when the error he sought to prevent is about to occur at trial”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidentiary rulings of the trial court will be left undisturbed unless an abuse of discretion results in substantial prejudice to the rights of a party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where no offer of proof appears of record, there is no way that a party can demonstrate that his substantial rights have been affected.”
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.