Perkinson v. Gilbert/Robinson, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 686 · 1987
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Buffington v. Baltimore County (1990), City of Richmond Virginia v. Madison Management Group Inc (1990)
19 federal appellate · 11 district ·
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 National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Harrison Richardson v. Thomas E. Gregory · G-K Properties and Genesco, Inc. v. Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Jose and the City of San Jose · Ceco Corp. v. Coleman · Stewart v. Ford Motor Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the award [which was reduced to $42,085 from the $71,202 requested] overcompensates plaintiff for unnecessary expenses caused by defendant, it could still have been justified for punitive and deterrent purposes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial uncertainty as to whether the documents were lost through inadvertence or because of actions taken in bad faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“waived her right to have the regulations considered by the jury because she failed to put them in evidence.”
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.