Wheeler v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 796 · 1992
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Whitford v. Boglino (1995), Thompson v. Boggs (1994)
39 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he abuse of discretion standard is met only when the trial judge's 'decision is based on an erroneous conclusion of law or where the record contains no evidence on which [s]he rationally could have based that decision, or where the supposed facts found are clearly erroneous.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nder this standard, a reviewing court gives special deference to the rulings of the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o error in either the admission or exclusion of evidence ... is ground for granting a new trial or for setting aside a verdict or for vacating, modifying or otherwise disturbing a judgment or order, unless refusal to take such action appears to the court inconsistent with substantial justice.”
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.