Rosenfeld v. Basquiat’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.3d 84 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Walden v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1997), United States of America v. James J. McDermott, Jr. (2001)
9 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Luce v. United States · Difronzo v. United States · First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the trial of an action ... a party or a person interested in the event ... shall not be examined as a witness in his own behalf or interest ... against the executor ... of a deceased person ... concerning a personal transaction or communication between the witness and the deceased person ... except where the executor ... is examined in his own behalf, or the testimony of a ... deceased person is given in evidence ..., concerning the same transaction or communication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Definition of unavailability. 'Unavailability as a witness' includes situations in which the declarant — ... is exempted by ruling of the court on the ground of privilege from testifying concerning the subject matter of the declarant’s statement....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marshall v. Planz“Unlike rulings that involve balancing potential prejudice against probative value, the ruling in the present case was not fact-bound and no real purpose other than form would have been served by a later objection.”
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.