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472 F.2d 1170 · 1973

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
January 1991
most recently cited

26 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1991 · most notably Colburn v. Bunge Towing, Inc. (1989), Giancontieri v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1985)

26 federal appellate ·

130197319801990decided

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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. · Reicheneder v. Skaggs Drug Center

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]ssessment of damages is an uncertain art at best, and in the absence of a clear abuse of discretion in either direction, we must abide the jury's measure,”
    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.