Needham v. White Laboratories, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 355 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Cooper v. Casey (1996), Littlefield v. McGuffey (1992)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1961
Relies on Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center · Jacobs v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections · 56 Ill. 2d 372 - Cunis v. Brennan · 79 Ill. 2d 26 - Woodill v. Parke Davis & Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'proceed cautiously when asked to set aside a jury's verdict and order a new trial ... on the ground that the instructions contained erroneous or confusing passages.'”
2 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.