Kossman v. Calumet County’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 697 · 1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Joe E. Cooper, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Asplundh Tree Expert Company, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee (1988), McMillan v. Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1998)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 631 (§ 12 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Lorillard v. Pons · National League of Cities v. Usery · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wyoming · Heiar v. Crawford County
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Including the cost of insurance coverage in a back pay award when the victim of discrimination fails to secure alternative coverage allows the victim to recover an unwarranted windfall unless he or she can demonstrate that they were unable to secure coverage and had a medical ex-pense____ [Plaintiffs] must establish that in fact they incurred expenses in securing alternative insurance coverage or incurred medical expenses that would have been covered under the [employer’s] insurance program had they not been terminated____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Liquidated damages under the ADEA ... are intended to provide compensation for losses that cannot be calculated with certainty”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An award of prejudgment interest lies within the discretion of the trial court.”
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.