Deppe v. Tripp’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 1356 · 1988
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Goldfuss v. Davidson (1997), Conkling v. Turner (1994)
100 federal appellate · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on United States v. Young · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in civil cases a plain error doctrine is not available to protect parties from erroneous jury instructions to which no objection was made at trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he plain error doctrine may be available to review evidentiary rulings to which no objection was made at trial ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party who chooses his counsel freely should be bound by his counsel's actions.”
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.