Wallace v. Poulos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district ·

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Fourth Circuit has not squarely reached this issue [of whether a new trial is required]. Instead, the court indicated “it was not clear to us that, for example, post -BMW, the Court would necessarily conclude that a plaintiff would be denied his Seventh Amendment jury right unless he were offered a completely new trial (or at least a completely new trial on damages) following an appellate decision that damages beyond a specified amount would be excessive as a matter of constitutional law.” In re Bd. of Cnty. Supervisors of Prince William Cnty., Va., 143 F.3d 835, 840 (4th Cir.1998).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Butler v. Windsor

2. “[Wjhether: the harm caused was physical as opposed to economic; the tortious conduct evinced an indifference to or a reckless disregard of the health or safety of others; the target of the conduct had financial vulnerability; the conduct involved repeated actions or was an isolated incident; and the harm was the result of intentional malice, trickery, or deceit, or mere accident.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Butler v. Windsor