Anna Nieto Betty Delosantos Patrick Sanchez Sally Netsch Phyllis Debaun Mary Gonzales v. Quadrat Kapoor’s Empirical Analysis
268 F.3d 1208 · 2001
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 18 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably McBride v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. (2002), Jennings v. Rivers (2005)
14 federal appellate · 18 district · 3 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 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · West v. Atkins · Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Punitive damages are available in § 1983 actions [and] are to be awarded only 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. The focus must be on whether the defendant’s actions call for deterrence and punishment over and above that provided by compensatory awards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A finding of fact is clearly erroneous if it is without factual support in the record or if the appellate court, after reviewing all the evidence, is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Dr. Kapoor was able to harass Plaintiffs because of his state authority as the Medical Director of a public radiation oncology department and because he supervised their work.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miguel v. Guess
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.