Smith v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1106 · 1989
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989), Romano v. U-Haul International (2000)
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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 Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey · Loeb v. Textron, Inc. · Mansell v. Mansell · Wells Real Estate, Inc. v. Greater Lowell Board of Realtors · Cox v. Babcock & Wilcox 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seriously affected the fairness, integrity or public reputation of the judicial proceedings.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'should be applied sparingly and only in exceptional cases or under peculiar circumstances to prevent a clear miscarriage of Justice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless that party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection.”
3 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.