Vasbinder v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 118 · 1992
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. W&O, Inc. (2000), Lynn Gorman-Bakos v. Cornell Cooperative
36 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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
Relies on Smith v. Wade · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · McNamara v. County of San Diego Department of Social Services · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey · Mississippi v. Turner
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make certain that... punitive damages are reasonable in their amount and rational in light of their purpose to punish what has occurred and to deter its repetition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitute a disproportionately large percentage of the defendant's net worth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In gauging excessiveness, we must keep in mind the purpose of punitive damages: `to punish the defendant and to deter him and others from similar conduct in the future.'”
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.