Dawson v. Fa’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Sternberg v. Johnston (2009), Garcia v. Google, Inc. (2015)
20 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Neztsosie · 10 Cal. 4th 1226 - Alliance Mortgage Co. v. Rothwell · Rita Saenz Director California Department of Social Servicess v. Brenda Roe Anna Doe · Bloom v. Bloom · Guimond v. Trans Union Credit Information Co.
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reading the legislative history as a whole, we are convinced that Congress was concerned not only with financial loss, but also — at least in part — with the emotional and psychological toll that a violation of a stay can exact from an ... individual. Because Congress meant for the automatic stay to protect more than financial interests, it makes sense to conclude that harm done to those non-financial interests by a violation are cognizable as “actual damages.” We conclude, then, that the “actual damages” that may be recovered by an individual who is injured by a willful violation of the automatic stay include damages for emotional distress.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(h) An individual injured by any willful violation of a stay provided by this section shall recover actual damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, and, in appropriate circumstances, may recover punitive damages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) have suffered significant emotional distress; (2) clearly establish the significant emotional distress; and (3) demonstrate a causal connection between that significant emotional distress and the stay violation.”
3 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.