Valbert v. Pass’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 237 · 1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Jones v. Lincoln Electric Co. (1999), Littlefield v. McGuffey (1992)
20 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Julius Goldman's Egg City v. United States · Multistate Legal Studies, Inc. v. Ladd, Register of Copyrights · Lenard v. Argento · Ramsey v. American Air Filter Co. · Deppe v. Tripp
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n instruction to the jury stating that the arguments of counsel are not evidence can mitigate the harm potentially caused by improper statements made by counsel during closing argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court, having seen the presentation of the evidence and observed the course of the trial, is in a unique position to rule on a new trial motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“counsel is entitled to make arguments based on reasonable inferences from the evidence during closing argument.”
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.