Attridge v. Cencorp Division of Dover Technologies International, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 113 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Thomas (1997), Resolution Trust Corp. v. Stone (1993)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Mattox v. United States · McDonald v. Pless · School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline · University Computing Co. v. Lykes-Youngstown Corp. · Martell v. Boardwalk Enterprises, Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]et it once be established that verdicts solemnly made and publicly returned into court can be attacked and set aside on the testimony of those who took part in their publication and all verdicts could be, and many would be, followed by an inquiry in the hope of discovering something which might invalidate the finding. Jurors would be harassed and beset by the defeated party in an effort to secure from them evidence of facts which might establish misconduct sufficient to set aside a verdict. If evidence thus secured could be thus used, the result would be to make what was intended to be a private deliberation, the constant subject of public investigation — to the destruction of all frankness and freedom of discussion and conference.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended to resolve doubts regarding the accuracy of the verdict announced, and not to question the process by which those verdicts were reached.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“free and uninhibited discourse during deliberations.”
3 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.