Rivas v. Brattesani’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 802 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2024
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Glasser v. United States · McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · Ross v. Oklahoma · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Keenan v. City of Philadelphia
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acts as more than a mere moderator or umpire. [Her] function is to set the tone of the proceedings and exercise sufficient control to insure that the trial will be an orderly one in which the jury will have the evidence clearly presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he judge's role is 'to see that the law is properly administered, and it is a duty which he cannot discharge by remaining inert.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is, of course, the rule that a motion for a new trial must be granted if the trial was not fair to the moving party.”
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.