Hendrickson v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.3d 887 · 2009
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell · U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. AIC Security Investigations, Ltd. · DeWalt v. Carter
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As with our review of a compensatory damages award, it is useful to compare the challenged punitive damages award with other awards upheld in the past.”
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.