Jd Havinga v. Crowley Towing and Transportation Company Jd Havinga’s Empirical Analysis
24 F.3d 1480 · 1994
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 29 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Correa v. Hospital San Francisco (1995), Romero-Barcelo v. Hernandez-Agosto (1996)
39 federal appellate · 29 district ·
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. § 1988
Relies on Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Remmer v. United States · State v. Simpson · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · United Families of America v. Kendrick
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no reasonable jury could have returned a verdict adverse to the moving party.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“grossly excessive, inordinate, shocking to the conscience of the court, or so high that it-would be a denial of justice to permit it to stand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so grossly disproportionate to any injury established by the evidence as to be unconscionable as a matter of law.”
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.