Morfeld v. Kehm’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 1452 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Bristol Steel Iron Works Incorporated v. Bethlehem Steel Corporation (1994), Price v. Seydel (1992)
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Perry v. Sindermann · Paul v. Davis · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation · Dioguardi v. United States · Wales ex rel. Wales Trucking Co. v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the prejudice or surprise in fact of the party against whom the excluded witnesses would have testified; (2) the ability of that party to cure the prejudice; (3) the extent to which waiver of the rule against calling unlisted witnesses would disrupt the orderly and efficient trial of the case or of other cases in the court; (4) bad faith or willfulness in failing to comply with the court's order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“review[ ] the trial court's ruling only for manifest error amounting to an abuse of discretion.”
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.