Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory’s Empirical Analysis
381 F.3d 56 · 2004
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (2008), Lore v. City of Syracuse (2012)
17 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins · Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust · Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. · Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio · Cronin v. Aetna Life Insurance
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“awards of more than $100,000 without discussion of protracted suffering, truly egregious conduct, or medical treatment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]f the jury had awarded a plaintiff who had not offered evidence of treatment or of physical sequelae 14 more than $125,000 for mental aguish, the court ordered a new trial unless the plaintiff agreed to accept a damages amount of $125,000. If a plaintiff who had offered proof of treatment or physical impact received more than $175,000 in emotional suffering damages, the court set a remittitur equal to that amount.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Critical skills were those skills that were critical to continuing work in the Lab as a whole. In addition, KAPL directed managers to consider whether the”
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.