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938 F.2d 1048 · 1991

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Riverwoods Chappaqua Corp. v. Marine Midland Bank, N.A. (1994), United States v. Montgomery (1998)

19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

190199120002010decided

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 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas

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

  1. “[a] party is not entitled to have the jury instructed in the particular language of his choice.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “If you . . . award a nominal figure as damages, and thus give plaintiff a souvenir judgment, you are entitling plaintiff, as the prevailing party in this lawsuit, to ask the Court at a later stage of the proceeding to award him attorney's fees commensurate to the value of his attorney's services in this case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[t]he majority rule is that it is error for a court to instruct a jury that it will subsequently treble any damages the jury awards.”
    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.