Davis v. Rennie’s Empirical Analysis
264 F.3d 86 · 2001
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 35 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Limone v. Condon (2004), Sunburst School District No. 2 v. Texaco, Inc. (2007)
44 federal appellate · 35 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Farmer v. Brennan · County of Sacramento v. Lewis
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a punitive damages award may be `justified not only by defendants' actions on [the date in question] but also by their subsequent behavior'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Threat” in this context involves the intentional exertion of pressure to make another fearful or apprehensive of injury or harm. “Intimidation” involves putting in fear for the purpose of compelling or deterring conduct .... [Coercion ... [is] “the application to another of such force, either physical or moral as to constrain him to do against his will something he would not otherwise have done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“asks an appellate court to scrutinize a trial judge's word choices, `the central inquiry reduces to whether, taking the charge as a whole, the instructions adequately illuminate the law applicable to the controlling issues in the case without unduly complicating matters or misleading the jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.