Alfonso v. Lund’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 958 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably State v. Reynolds (1990), Kramer v. Lewisville Memorial Hospital (1993)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Santoni v. United States · Angrist v. United States · Hamil v. Bashline · Cappaert v. United States · Cooper v. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) The deposition of a witness, whether or not a party, may be used by any party for any purpose if the court finds: ... (B) that the witness is at a greater distance than 100 miles from the place of trial or hearing, or is out of the United States, unless it appears that the absence of the witness was procured by the party offering the deposition;....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.