Schimpf v. Gerald, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2018
1 district · 2 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 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act)
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elements that are both penal and remedial[,] ... depending on the context, a claim may be characterized one way or the other”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] multiple-damages provision's dual nature can result in it being considered more like a compensatory remedy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“while being considered more like a penalty”
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.