Laforest v. Autoridad de Las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 443 · 1976
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989), Wagenmann v. Adams (1987)
68 federal appellate · 8 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 Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Cruz v. Hauck · Parham v. Cortese · William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · Nations v. Morris
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)he rule of review commonly applied by federal appellate courts with respect to civil jury awards . . . is that the jury's otherwise supportable verdict stands unless 'grossly excessive' or 'shocking to the conscience.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A federal jury ... is not bound in making its determination by the amount that the Commonwealth courts have awarded or approved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a federal appellate court may not reverse for insufficiency of the evidence in the absence of an unwaived motion for directed verdict”
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.