Johnson v. Serra’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1289 · 1975
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 80 Wis. 2d 525 - Cords v. Anderson (1977), Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., a Corporation, Susan E. Morrow, an Incompetent v. Douglas H. Huber (1976)
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 United States v. District Court · Corallo v. United States · Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Addie Kelly · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · United States Steel Corp. v. Lamp
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the instant ease were a Jones Act, FELA or other federally created claim, the evidence of future inflationary trends and their impact on the value of the dollar would probably be considered too speculative and conjectural to be admitted. The federal circuits that have faced the issue in cases involving federally created claims, governed by federal rather than state law, have for the most part rejected the testimony, jury instructions or trial court consideration of future inflationary trends in damage assessment. Id., 521 F.2d at 1295-96 . See id., nn. 16, 17 and cases cited therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ideally, the damage award should compensate appellant . . .. If a jury is not permitted to consider decreases in the purchasing power of money, appellant would be woefully damaged if inflation should continue at its present or any other substantial rate. Some consideration of probabilities is inevitable in any fair award of damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he measure of damages and consequently the limits of relevancy in this diversity case are set by the substantive law of (Missouri).”
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.