King v. Macri’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 294 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Murphy v. Lynn (1997), Jennifer Passantino Charles Passantino v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Order and Products Inc (2000)
31 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · ITT Continental Baking Co. v. William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. · Sisson v. Ruby · McNamara v. County of San Diego Department of Social Services · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be imposed to alter the award of a jury that was explicitly told, without objection, that it could make a punitive award without any compensatory award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“regardless of whether plaintiff has established actual damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“too insubstantial to support any compensatory 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.