Smith v. Bell Atlantic’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Tobin v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (2009), Salvi v. Suffolk County Sheriff's Department (2006)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp. · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Tyndall v. National Education Centers, Inc. · Smith v. Ameritech
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so egregious as to warrant the condemnation and enhanced deterrence that underlie the imposition of punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Heagney v. Wong
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.