Robinson v. Cattaraugus County’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.3d 153 · 1998
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Derek Tolbert v. Queens College the City University of New York Stuart Liebman Helen Smith Cairns Eric Gander (2001), Lore v. City of Syracuse (2012)
17 federal appellate · 4 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 Carey v. Piphus · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Dimick v. Schiedt · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a jury finds that a constitutional violation has been proven but that the plaintiff has not shown injury sufficient to warrant an award of compensatory damages,.... it is plain error to instruct the jury merely that, having found a violation, it `may' [rather than must] award nominal damages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n Section 1983 cases ... punitive damages may be awarded even in the absence of a compensatory award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This circuit, however, recognizes an exception to this rule: where a district court denies a motion for a new trial made on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, such a ruling is not reviewable on appeal.”
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.