Young v. Rabideau’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 373 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado v. Vincent Joseph SPOTO (1990), Deppe v. Tripp (1988)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Young · Bates v. State Bar · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · In re Martin-Trigona
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court has broad discretion in deciding whether the value of the proffered evidence outweighs the prejudice to the defendant. . . . The decision of the district judge will be accorded ' great deference ' because his first-hand exposure to all the evidence and his familiarity with the course of the trial proceedings are the best qualifications for balancing the value of the evidence in its proper context.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the offer need not be formal, nor the error precisely specified . However, appellant needed to make the appropriate arguments to the district court ... in order to alert the trial court to the issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the substance of the evidence [excluded] was made known to the court by offer or was apparent from the context within which questions were asked,”
2 later decisions 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.