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809 F.2d 643 · 1986

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
4
states following
December 2024
most recently cited

16 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Bell (2007), Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians v. Pierce (2001)

16 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions

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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 Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Lane · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Johnson v. United States · Gray 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he court shall 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, [and] (2) avoid needless consumption of time.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a party, at the time the ruling or order of the court is made or sought, make[] known to the [trial] court the action which the party desires the court to take or the party's objection to the action of the court and the grounds therefor”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[A] district judge has a duty to guide the jury toward an intelligent understanding of the legal and factual issues it must resolve, particularly when the jury asks a question revealing its confusion over the central issue of a case.”
    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.