Morgan v. Labiak’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.2d 338 · 1966
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Meade v. Grubbs (1988), Putman v. Gerloff (1981)
34 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Screws v. United States · United States v. Classic · McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Surveys, Inc. · United States v. Featherston
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * absent an award so excessive or inadequate as to shock the judicial conscience and raise an irresistible inference that passion, prejudice or another improper cause invaded the trial, the jury's determination of the amount of damages is inviolate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he reasonableness of the force used in making an arrest under all the circumstances is a question of fact for the jury, and the standard is the conduct of ordinary, prudent men under the existing circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily this question is primarily for the trial court alone and a determination thereof presents no grounds for reversal on appeal except for manifest abuse of discretion.”
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.