Brady v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2020
1 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 12102 (§ 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12205 (§ 505 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A
Relies on United States v. Olano · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Blum v. Stenson · Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether I analyze it under the “deviates materially” standard of § 5501(c) or the more nuanced approach of Transit Au thority, I cannot sustain the jury’s award of $2.5 million as compensation for Brady’s emotional distress. With respect to § 5501(c), the award does deviate materially from other awards that the parties have cited.... And under the Transit Authority analysis, the third prong—requiring a comparison to other awards—compels a similar result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he specific rate that is reasonable for a given attorney depends on such factors as the attorney's experience and expertise, the novelty and complexity of the issues presented, and the overall success achieved in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kindle v. Dejana“their son lost interest in school, experienced a loss of appetite, cried for no apparent reason, [and] paced in his room unable to sleep at night”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.