Joan W. v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 1020 · 1985
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably McNabola v. Chicago Transit Authority (1993), Cygnar v. City of Chicago (1989)
44 federal appellate · 1 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))
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Gillette Co. v. Miner
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One factor we must consider in determining whether to set aside an award is whether the award is out of line compared to other awards in similar cases.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'monstrously excessive,' a product of passion and prejudice, or if there is no rational connection between it and the evidence, may the trial court disturb it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ppellate review is governed by the extremely limited abuse of discretion standard.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.