Webb v. Distefano’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2006
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Montana v. United States · Carey v. Piphus · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Hansberry v. Lee
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my October 5, 1983, order I found that $2,000 will reasonably compensate the plaintiff for the injuries proximately resulting from the use of excessive force in the cell area incident. However, I have never made any findings or awards as to Stanzel’s liability for punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A judgment against one person liable for a loss does not terminate a claim that the injured party may have against another person who may be liable therefor.”
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.