Cowans v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 697 · 1989
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Munz v. Michael (1994), Howard v. Adkison (1989)
44 federal appellate · 1 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Carey v. Piphus · Whitley v. Albers · Rhodes v. Chapman · Ingraham v. Wright
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it is unable to place a monetary value on the harm that [the plaintiff-inmate] suffered from the punishment”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I agree with majority opinion that if the jury finds an eighth amendment violation, the jury must award plaintiff at least nominal damages. I also agree with the majority opinion that in this case an award of nominal damages would indicate that plaintiff could not prove the monetary value of his injury and pain and suffering with sufficient certainty to entitle him to recover an award of substantial compensatory damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Meek v. Orton“jury is required to award nominal damages once it has found cruel and unusual punishment if it has not been able to convert into dollars the injury and pain a plaintiff has suffered.”
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.