Ortiz v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 383 · 1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Floyd v. Laws (1991), Graefenhain v. Pabst Brewing Co. (1989)
22 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Kahn v. Grant · Ford Motor Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Liotta v. National Forge 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any reasonable theory consistent with the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant is entitled to an instruction if it is supported by law, and the failure to submit a proper jury instruction is a question of law which we review de novo”
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.