Zarcone v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
572 F.2d 52 · 1978
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Smith v. Lightning Bolt Productions, Inc. (1988), Kirsch v. Fleet Street, Ltd. (1998)
71 federal appellate · 11 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Monroe v. Pape · Moor v. County of Alameda · Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so high as to shock the judicial conscience and constitute a denial of justice.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he decided cases and sound principle require that a defendant carry the burden of showing his modest means--facts peculiarly within his power--if he wants this considered in mitigation of damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the abuse of official power here was intolerable, and when a jury has dealt with it severely, as it should, we will not draw fine lines to restrain its dispensation of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.