Fittipaldi v. Legassie’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1987
6 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 Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials Co · Duane Jones Co. v. Burke · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Thompson · Voltz v. . Blackmar · 16 E.H. Smith 154 - Krug v. . Pitass
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Strong reasons of policy promote the use of exemplary damages to deter union officials from conduct designed to suppress the rights of members.... The very basis for the existence of unionism in our society today is the promise of employment to those who desire to associate freely in order to obtain it. The right of the working man to the benefits of collective bargaining is too essential and valuable to be hindered, impeded and seriously damaged by irresponsible and dictatorial leaders whose dominance in any given situation does great disservice to the purpose and principles of union-ism_ Imposition of exemplary damages, when the requisite elements of malice, gross fraud, wanton or wicked conduct, violence or oppression are present, serves to achieve the deterrence they were designed to effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taliaferro v. Schiro
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.