Chonich’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2013
2 federal appellate ·
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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · City of Canton v. Harris · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of an express objection, we look to whether the instruction in question, in proper context, and considering the instructions in their entirety, constituted clear and prejudicial error. ... [I]n light of Fed.R.Civ.P. 51, we may consider any such error not objected to as waived, except where there is “plain error” or it “required action by the reviewing court ‘in the interests of justice.’ ” Batesole v. Stratford, 505 F.2d 804, 808 (6th Cir.1974) (quoting O’Brien v. Willys Motors, Inc., 385 F.2d 163 (6th Cir.1967)). See also Ivey v. Wilson, 832 F.2d 950, 955 (6th Cir.1987). There is a question, moreover, whether we consider even obvious and prejudicial error in a jury instruction in the absence of procedural steps, timely objections, a motion for a new trial, or any other post-judgment motion addressing this issue. See Murphy v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 779 F.2d 340, 346 (6th Cir.1985); Wiskotoni v. Michigan Nat’l Bank-West, 716 F.2d 378, 382 (6th Cir.1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.