Tuers v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2016
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 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Loeffler v. Frank · Hotel And Restaurant Employees And Bartenders International Union, Afl-Cio v. Michelson's Food Services, Inc. · Baker v. Runyon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A complaining party may recover punitive damages ... against a respondent (other than a government, government agency or political subdivision) 11 if the complaining party demonstrates that the respondent engaged in a discriminatory practice or discriminatory practices with malice and reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of an aggrieved individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.