413 F. Supp. 1377 - Keck v. Wacker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1993
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Crescent Grocery Co. v. Vick · Ashland Dry Goods Co. v. Wages · Sanford Construction Co. v. S & H CONTRACTORS, 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““done wilfully, maliciously, wantonly, or oppressively. Without such evidence, punitive damages cannot be granted. The conduct must be outrageous, so that the Court may punish the offender and deter others . .. (citations omitted) or such damages may be granted where there is proof of gross neglect or disregard for the rights of others.... ” (Citations omitted). Id. at 1383, 1384 .”
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.