Perry v. Bertsch’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 939 · 1971
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., a Corporation, Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Douglas H. Huber (1976), Richardson v. Communications Workers (1976)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Solomon Dehydrating Company, Incorporated v. Clarence R. Guyton, Central Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, and the Greyhound Corporation · Bankers Life & Casualty Company v. C. M. Kirtley, Trustee in Corporate Reorganization Proceedings of Automatic Washer Company · Parke-Davis and Company, a Corporation v. Shane Stromsodt, a Minor, by Robert M. Stromsodt, His Guardian Ad Litem · Schultz & Lindsay Construction Co. v. Erickson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not routinely and in every case, but only in those rare situations where we are pressed to conclude that there is 'plain injustice' or 'monstrous' or 'shocking' result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is important . . . that the damages awarded by a federal court jury shall not exceed those which could be sustained where the case is before the supreme court of that state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Novak v. Gramm“a comparison of verdicts in other cases is of limited value as each case must be evaluated according to the evidence peculiar to that case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Dowd
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.