Wakefield v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 55 · 1985
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989), Ingraham v. United States (1987)
23 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Boyd v. United States · United States v. Kubrick · Ratchford v. Gay Lib
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.
““The jury’s award is not to be disturbed unless it is entirely disproportionate to the injury sustained. We have expressed the extent of distortion that warrants intervention by requiring such awards to be so large as to ‘shock the judicial conscience,’ ‘so gross or inordinately large as to be contrary to right reason,’ so exaggerated as to indicate ‘bias, passion, prejudice, corruption, or other improper motive,’ or as ‘clearly exceedpng] that amount that any reasonable man could feel the claimant is entitled to.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ommon sense dictates ... that reference to other awards is more or less useful”
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.