Ladnier v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 195 · 1985
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably O'Neill v. Krzeminski (1988), Beckman Instruments, Inc. v. LKB Produkter AB (1989)
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Wood v. Strickland · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Johnson v. Glick
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, however, `viewed in the most generous way, the answers are inconsistent with each other, a new trial is ordinarily required.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a special verdict form is used and the jury's findings apparently conflict, the court has a duty to harmonize the answers, if it is possible to do so under a fair reading of them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the legal error resulting from entry of a judgment based on inconsistent special interrogatories may be an error of constitutional magnitude, infringing the seventh amendment right to jury trial `by allowing the District Court to usurp the jury's function.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gayle W. Figg, Personally and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Allen Figg, Deceased Robert L. Figg, III John Stuart Figg Martha Figg Williams Wayne Attanasio v. John A. Schroeder, Sergeant Michael J. Anthony, Sergeant, and Thomas C. Land, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff's Deputy John Does, 1-10, Consisting of Several Unidentified Hanover County Sheriff's Deputies, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Sheriff's Deputies Winston R. Robertson Douglas R. Hines v. Stuart Cook, Individually and as Sheriff, Hanover County, Gayle W. Figg, Personally and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Allen Figg, Deceased Robert L. Figg, III John Stuart Figg Martha Figg Williams Wayne Attanasio v. John A. Schroeder, Sergeant Michael J. Anthony, Sergeant, and Thomas C. Land, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff's Deputy John Does, 1-10, Consisting of Several Unidentified Hanover County Sheriff's Deputies, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Sheriff's Deputies Winston R. Robertson Douglas R. Hines v. Stuart Cook, Individually and as Sheriff, Hanover County, Gayle W. Figg, Personally and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Allen Figg, Deceased Robert L. Figg, III John Stuart Figg Martha Figg Williams Wayne Attanasio v. John A. Schroeder, Sergeant Michael J. Anthony, Sergeant Thomas C. Land, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Sheriff's Deputy John Does, 1-10, Consisting of Several Unidentified Hanover County Sheriff's Deputies, Individually and in Their Official Capacities as Sheriff's Deputies Winston R. Robertson Douglas R. Hines v. Stuart Cook, Individually and as Sheriff, Hanover County · Figg III
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.