Allen v. Minnstar, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 1365 · 1996
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably United International Holdings, Inc. v. Wharf (Holdings) Ltd. (2000), Jack Davoll
30 federal appellate · 7 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 Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · O'NEAL v. McAninch · Bollenbach v. United States · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Bourjaily v. United States
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.
“to determine whether, as a whole, [they] correctly stated the governing law and provided the jury with an ample understanding of the issues and applicable standards.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'without benefit of such aids as presumptions or allocated burdens of proof that expedite fact-finding at the trial.' " O'Neal v. McAninch, 513 U.S. 432 , 436-37, 115 S.Ct. 992, 130 L.Ed.2d 947 (1995) (quoting Roger J. Traynor, The Riddle of Harmless Error 26 (1970)). Part of O'Neal 's holding depends on concerns unique to habeas cases, but its rejection of the use of burdens in harmless-error review apparently does not. See id. at 442, 115 S.Ct. 992 ( "[E]ven if ... we were to assume that the civil standard for judging harmlessness applies to habeas proceedings ... it would make no difference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[P]laintiff's argument is entirely speculative and could arguably be raised in any case in which a jury presents questions to a trial court. As we have previously noted, a verdict will not be upset on the basis of speculation about possible jury confusion.”
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.