Champeau v. Fruehauf Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 1271 · 1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Sanders v. Clemco Industries (1988), McKnight ex rel. Ludwig v. Johnson Controls, Inc. (1994)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Scalza v. United States · Holmes v. United States · Cochran 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rdinarily, dissimilarities affect the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the admissibility of [demonstration] evidence lies largely in the discretion of the trial judge,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Espinoza v. Dunn“merely to demonstrate general principles of physics,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Espinoza v. Dunn
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.