Erff v. MarkHon Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 613 · 1986
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Bank Leumi Le-Israel v. Lee (1991), Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Arnett (1989)
52 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
Relies on Difronzo v. United States · Central Railroad v. Pennsylvania · Libertyville Datsun Sales, Inc. v. Nissan Motor Corp. · Desert Palace, Inc. v. Salisbury
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial judge may properly depend upon counsel to apprise him of the issues for decision. He is not obligated to conduct a search for other issues which may lurk in the pleadings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the pre-trial order is treated as superseding the pleadings and establishes the issues to be considered at trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“axiomatic that arguments not raised below are waived on appeal.”
5 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.