Cygnar v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 827 · 1989
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably McNabola v. Chicago Transit Authority (1993), Antonelli v. Sheahan (1996)
103 federal appellate · 7 district · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ecause the authority to grant a new trial ... is confided almost entirely to the exercise of discretion on the part of the trial court, ... the grant or denial of a motion for a new trial is not subject to review by this court, except upon exceptional circumstances showing a clear abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““we must determine de novo ‘whether the evidence presented, combined with all reasonable inferences permissibly drawn therefrom, is sufficient to support the verdict when viewed in a light most favorable to the party against whom the motion is directed.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bogan v. Stroud · Reed v. Shepard“... while the trial judge’s determination of the propriety of a jury’s damage award warrants substantial deference (because of his or her superior position to assess the credibility of witnesses and the like), “a somewhat more exacting standard should apply” where the court grants, rather than denies, a new trial on damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.