Schrand v. Federal Pacific Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 152 · 1988
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins (1993), Rendine v. Pantzer (1995)
110 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 2111 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba · Chappell v. GTE Products Corp.
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the context of an evidentiary ruling, abuse of discretion exists when the reviewing court is firmly convinced that a mistake has been made.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Application of this test is highly sensitive to the unique context of the particular case, including the one-sided or closely balanced nature of the evidence bearing upon the issue which the error arguably affected ... and the centrality of that issue to the ultimate deci sion.”
4 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.