Beckman v. Mayo Foundation’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 435 · 1986
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably McKnight ex rel. Ludwig v. Johnson Controls, Inc. (1994), Smith v. World Insurance (1994)
24 federal appellate · 1 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 Skogen v. The Dow Chemical Company · McGee v. South Pemiscot School District R-V · Goldsmith v. Diamond Shamrock Corp. · Circle Dairy Inc v. Ao Smith Harvestore Products 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court can only disturb a jury verdict to prevent a miscarriage of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * exercise reasonable control over the mode and order of interrogating witnesses and presenting evidence so as to (1) make the interrogation and presentation effective for the ascertainment of the truth, (2) avoid needless consumption of time, and (3) protect witnesses from harassment or undue embarrassment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he district court has discretion in the style and wording of jury instructions so long as the charge as a whole fairly and adequately states the law.”
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.