Johansen v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.3d 1320 · 1999
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. W&O, Inc. (2000), Goldsmith v. Bagby Elevator Co. (2008)
37 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Thompson v. Keohane
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constitutionally reduced verdict ... is really not a remittitur at all. A remitti-tur is a substitution of the court’s judgment for that of the jury regarding the appropriate award of damages. The court orders a remittitur when it believes the jury’s award is unreasonable on the facts. A constitutional reduction, on the other hand, is a determination that the law does not permit the award. Unlike a remittitur, which is discretionary with the court ... a court has a mandatory duty to correct an unconstitutionally excessive verdict so that it conforms to the requirements of the due process clause.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“justified by the need to deter this and other large organizations from a `pollute and pay' environmental policy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a large and extremely wealthy international corporation”
4 later decisions 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.