Johnson v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 1192 · 1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2013
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Jerome Seaton and Gladys Seaton, His Wife v. Sky Realty Company, Inc. · Phiffer v. Proud Parrot Motor Hotel, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages may be awarded for humiliation and emotional distress established by testimony or inferred from the circumstances”). . 646 F.Supp. 884, 890 (D.D.C.1986) (quoting Hobson v. Wilson, 737 F.2d at 61 n. 173 (citing Doe, 697 F.2d at 1124 n. 24)). . Hobson v. Brennan, 646 F.Supp. at 890 . . Id. . See Balistrieri, 981 F.2d at 932 (quoting Seaton v. Sky Realty Co., 491 F.2d 634, 636 (7th Cir.1974) (upholding a damages award based on”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“both plaintiffs provided detailed and substantial testimony to support their claims that they suffered emotional distress as a result of the Hales' discriminatory acts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Hale“an amount which will fairly compensate them for their injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Hale
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.