Abrams v. Lightolier, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Abrams v. Lightolier Inc. (1995), Hernandez v. Region Nine Housing Corp. (1996)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 26 U.S.C. § 104 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · California v. ARC America Corp. · Brady v. Southern Railway 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it had been a very upsetting thing to be accused in secret of bribery, to a company that you’ve worked for, without even the courtesy of being told about it. It has been very unnerving, unpleasant and distressing to have somebody tell you that you can’t have a job because you are not up to it physically .... [a]nd I have really been very, very, very upset by the whole thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties and on all or part of the issues (1) in an action in which there has been a trial by jury, for any of the reasons for which new trials have heretofore been granted in actions at law in the courts of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the severity of the distress from the testimony of the plaintiff himself was not of such a degree to warrant the judgment of over half a million dollars”
1 later decision 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.