Fenolio v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 256 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2009
19 federal appellate ·
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 Die & Toolmakers Lodge 113, International Ass'n of Machinists v. National Labor Relations Board · 8 Ill. 2d 164 - Allendorf v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · 26 Ill. 2d 403 - The People v. Stahl · 116 Ill. App. 3d 563 - Tracy v. Village of Lombard · Avance v. Thompson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Improper statements during closing arguments warrant reversal only if they 'influenced the jury in such a way that substantial prejudice resulted to' the opposing 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.