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806 F.2d 326 · 1986

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
August 1992
most recently cited

21 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Landrigan v. City of Warwick · Oxford Shipping Co. v. New Hampshire Trading 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[f]indings based on witness credibility are lodged firmly in the province of the trial court, and we are loathe to disturb them absent a compelling showing of error.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
    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.