Stallworth v. Shuler’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 1431 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Alexander v. Fulton County (2000), Crawford v. Carroll (2008)
36 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Carey v. Piphus · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce a defendant is found liable for the plaintiff's injury, the district court has a great deal of discretion in deciding the level of damages to be awarded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the legal elements of the claims are identical.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involve[d] reckless or callous indifference to the federally protected rights of others.”
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.