Neyer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 641 · 1988
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989), Limone v. United States (2009)
17 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · United States v. District Court · Hatahley v. United States · Nations v. Morris
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Normally, when elements of damages for personal injuries cannot be precisely cal culated, the exact amount of a damages award is left to the discretion of the trier of fact within the framework of allowable elements under the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is 'shocking' or manifests 'plain injustice' or the damage award is 'so grossly excessive as to be clearly erroneous.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n appropriate cases reductions in awards may well be justified even when the amount in controversy does not necessarily ‘shock the conscience,’ but rather leaves us with ‘the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed’’ resulting in plain injustice.”
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.