Vosburg v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 763 · 1988
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Berry v. City of Muskogee (1990), Marsh v. Arn (1991)
33 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Smith v. Wade · Murphy v. Hunt · Memphis Community School District v. Stachura
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial court is in a much better position than this court to view the evidence and to evaluate the testimony and work product of the attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen v. Clarke
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.