Wilson v. Waggener’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 220 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Foradori v. Harris (2008), Doty v. Sewall (1990)
29 federal appellate ·
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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Collins v. Wayne Corp. · Petty v. Ideco Division of Dresser Industries Inc · White v. Rimmer & Garrett, 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party whose motion in limine is overruled must renew his objection when the evidence is about to be introduced at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a motion in limine is insufficient to meet” the requirement for a trial objection to the specific matter put before the jury, and that”
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.