Bennett v. Longacre’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 1024 · 1985
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Mason v. Texaco, Inc. (1991), Big Horn Coal Company v. Commonwealth Edison Company Black Butte Coal Company (1988)
25 federal appellate · 14 district · 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
Relies on Lavender v. Kurn · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Barnes v. Smith · Mid-West Underground Storage, Inc. v. Porter
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to shock the judicial conscience and to raise an irresistible inference that passion, prejudice, corruption, or other improper cause invaded the trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a fundamental legal principle that the determination of the quantum of damages in civil cases is a fact-finder's function.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he amount of damages awarded by a jury can be supported by any competent evidence tending to sustain it.”
4 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.