Doe v. Binker’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Joy v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. (1993), Surratt v. Prince George's County (1990)
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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 Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Donovan v. Penn Shipping Co. · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Craft · Alonzo Wayne Taylor v. The Washington Terminal Company
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree that the rationale supporting the traditional common law rule is absent when the plaintiff is forced into the position of responding to an appeal brought by the defendant. We conclude that where the party who benefits from a remittitur appeals the judgment on other grounds the party who accepts a remittitur may contest the remittitur on cross-appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“pecuniary loss--calculated as the annual share of decedent's dependents in the decedent's earnings, multiplied by the decedent's work life expectancy, and discounted to present value”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he issue of damages in a wrongful death or survival action, as in other actions, is particularly within the province of the jury.”
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.