Johnson v. Ashby’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 676 · 1987
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably O'Dell v. Hercules Inc. (1990), Amarel
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Mann v. Koob · Dothard v. Rawlinson · McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company · American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. MCI Communications Corp. · Flaminio v. Honda Motor Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'prevent undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the use of the plain-error exception to the normal rules of appellate practice must be confined to the most compelling cases, especially in civil, as opposed to criminal, litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an abuse of the trial court's discretion to exclude probative, non-cumulative evidence simply because its introduction will cause delay.”
2 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.