Kisor v. Johns-Manville Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 1337 · 1986
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia (1992), United States v. Terry (1990)
108 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · McLinn F/v Fjord Johnson F/v Supersonic Churchill v. F/v Fjord F/v Supersonic F/v Supersonic · Coursen v. A.H. Robins Co. · Haddad v. Lockheed California 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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'determine whether, viewing the instructions as a whole, the court gave adequate instructions on each element of the case to ensure the jury fully understood the issues,' and to determine 'whether the instruction is misleading or states the law incorrectly to the prejudice of the objecting party.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o reverse, we must say that more probably than not, the error tainted the verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the instruction is misleading or states the law incorrectly to the prejudice of the objecting party”
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.