Robles v. Exxon Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 1201 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Jones (1998), Munn v. Algee (1991)
15 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Patterson v. United States · Tanner v. United States · Harris v. McRae · School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline · Smallwood v. Pearl Brewing 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.
“Jurors will not be able to function effectively if their deliberations are to be scrutinized in post-trial litigation. In the interests of protecting the jury system and the citizens who make it work, rule 606 [of the Federal Rules of Evidence] should not permit any inquiry into the internal deliberations of the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“errors . . . can be understood to refer only to discrepancies between the verdict delivered in court and the precise verdict physically or verbally agreed to in the jury room, not to discrepancies between the verdict delivered in court and the verdict or general result which the jury testifies it”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule 58(2) and the seventh amendment command that judgment be entered on the verdict if the jury's answers are clear and consistent, subject, of course, to the usual motions under rules 50 and 59 for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial”
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.