Caldarera v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 778 · 1983
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Hobson v. Wilson (1984), Dixon v. International Harvester Co. (1985)
141 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Francis v. United States · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · Cirillo v. United States · Huff v. White Motor Corp.
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entirely disproportionate to the injury sustained.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our power to grant a remittitur is the same as that of the district court.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bias, passion, prejudice, corruption, or other improper motive,”
9 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.