Spell v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2001
5 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1870 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Owen v. City of Independence · Hutto v. Finney · Brandon v. Holt · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co.
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.
“A jury's finding as to liability can be binding even though its monetary award is found to be [inadequate] or even improperly influenced - our deference to and faith in the jury system demands at least this much.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pryer v. Slavic · No. 00-3297“one where it is obvious that the jury compromised the issue of liability by awarding inadequate damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pryer v. Slavic · No. 00-3297“totality of the circumstances simply [did] not point unerringly to a compromise verdict”
2 later decisions 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.