Taliferro v. Augle’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 157 · 1985
Citation profile
39 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Jones v. City of Chicago (1988), Rascon v. Hardiman (1986)
39 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Mary Beth v. City of Chicago Tikalsky · Parrett v. City of Connersville · Abernathy v. Superior Hardwoods, Inc. · Keyes v. Lauga
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not a reasonable estimate of such an intangible loss when no effort at all is made to estimate an objective basis for quantifying the loss.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A plaintiff is not permitted to throw himself on the generosity of the jury. If he wants damages, he must prove them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“he looked bad. I had never seen him look like that. His face was all swollen, his mouth. He just look like he had been really ruffled up and his clothes. He looked bad. No doubt about it, he had been beaten up.”
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.