Paul v. Avril’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2014
4 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991)
Relies on Zarcone v. Perry · 577 F. Supp. 860 - Filartiga v. Pena-Irala · 812 F. Supp. 207 - Paul v. Avril
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n award of punitive, damages must • reflect the egregiousness of the defendant’s conduct, the central role he played -in the abuses, and the international condemnation with which these abuses are viewed.”
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.