Ismail v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 183 · 1990
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. (1996), United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1992)
33 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Jett v. Dallas Independent School District · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc.
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“calculation of damages is the province of the jury,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he standard of appellate review of damage awards, whether compensatory or punitive, 'is whether the award is so high as to shock the judicial conscience and constitute a denial of justice.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant’s brief collects a sizeable list of eases in which either judgment was entered on a smaller jury verdict or the district or appellate court ordered remitti-tur. We stress, however, that our task is not to balance the number of high and low awards and reject the verdict in the instant case if the number of lower awards is greater. Rather, we inquire whether the ... verdict is within a reasonable range.”
2 later decisions 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.