Gill v. Manuel’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 799 · 1973
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2009 · most notably Jennifer Passantino Charles Passantino v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Order and Products Inc (2000), Allen v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 788 (1977)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Basista v. Weir · Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp. · Halladay v. Verschoor · Flentie v. American Community Stores Corp.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he final determination of whether punitive damages should be awarded has to be left to the discretion of the trier of fact. See Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corporation, 429 F.2d 290, 294 (5th Cir. 1970), wherein it is stated: ‘The allowance of such damages [referring to punitive damages] inherently involves an evaluation of the nature of the conduct in question, the wisdom of some form of pecuniary punishment, and the advisability of a deterrent. Therefore, the infliction of such damages, and the amount thereof when inflicted, are of necessity within the discretion of the trier of the fact.’ ””
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.