Ronald Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably 155 Cal. App. 4th 798 - Buckland v. Threshold Enterprises, Ltd. (2007), Tarr v. Ciasulli (2004)
13 district · 6 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
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Smith v. Wade · Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona · Curtis v. Loether
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]unitive damages may be awarded under 42 U.S.C. S 1983 `when the defendant's conduct is shown to be motivated by evil motive or intent, or when it involves reckless or callous indifference to the federally protected rights of others.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, a party who does not clearly and specifically object to a charge he believes to be erroneous waives the issue on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the record, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection.”
2 later decisions 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.