Lawson v. Trowbridge’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 368 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Savino v. C.P. Hall Co. (1999), Carmichell Bell v. Clackamas County, a Political Subdivision of the State of Oregon (2003)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Heck v. Humphrey · Monge v. California · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth · Bell v. City of Milwaukee
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]nce the defendants made their financial weakness the centerpiece of their testimony in the damages phase of the trial, .... their direct testimony “opened the door” and the district court should have permitted [the plaintiff] to point to [the] indemnification ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the general case courts exclude evidence of indemnification out of a fear that it will encourage a jury to inflate its damages award because it knows the government-not the individual defendants-is footing the bill.”
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.