940 F. Supp. 449 - Blissett v. Eisensmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2013
1 district ·
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 Morissette v. United States · Hudson v. McMillian · Dunn v. United States · Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison · Lambert v. Genesee Hospital
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold otherwise, the court believes, would set dangerous precedent. Allowing the Railroad to challenge the jury’s verdict in the absence of a timely objection runs counter to the sanctity normally accorded such verdicts and would encourage rampant abuse of Rule 49. Thus, refusal to apply the waiver rule here would merely encourage a dissatisfied party to withhold timely notice of problems, problems that likely could be cured at trial by the original jury, as a pretext for seeking a second bite of the apple before a new jury that might be more receptive to its claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Tilghman
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.