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Kovacich v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis

951 F.2d 114 · 1991

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
December 2009
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on General Leaseways, Inc. v. National Truck Leasing Ass'n · Brandes v. Burbank · McDonald v. Sandvik Process Systems, Inc. · Lake County Assessor's Office v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Employment & Training Services

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the substance of the tendered instruction is sufficiently covered by other instructions, the refusal of such an instruction will not ordinarily constitute error.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “with an eye towards the adequacy of the instructions actually given.”
    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.