Dall v. Coffin’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 964 · 1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2024
9 federal appellate · 6 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 McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · United States v. Boylan · Wagenmann v. Adams · United States v. Angiulo · Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhis Circuit prohibits the post-verdict interview of jurors by counsel, litigants, or their agents except under the supervision of the district court, and then only in suck extraordinary situations as are deemed appropriate. Permitting the unbridled interviewing of jurors could easily lead to their harassment, to the exploitation of their thought processes, and to diminished confidence in jury verdicts, as well as to unbalanced trial results depending unduly on the relative resources of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party must first demonstrate that a juror failed to answer honestly a material question on voir dire, and then further show that a correct response would have provided a valid basis for cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n reviewing the district court's denial of appellant['s] request for a new trial, we ... consider only whether the district court abused its discretion.”
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.