Vaughn v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 1372 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2023
18 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2111 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · Quercia v. United States · Kahn v. Grant · In re Martin-Trigona · United States v. Park
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'common sense manner, avoiding fastidiousness, inquiring whether the correct message was conveyed to the jury reasonably well.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some effect on the substantial rights of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both in the context of the other instructions given and in light of the allegations of the complaint, opening and closing arguments and the evidence of record.”
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.