Arnold v. Wilder

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that improper questioning of defendant is “harmless in light of other evidence produced at trial”
• finding that “pull[ing] away or pull[ing] back when [an officer] attempted to take [plaintiff] into custody” was not an action that “constitutes resisting arrest” under Kentucky law
• holding that the first element was satisfied when an officer “did not have to arrest” the plaintiff but “insisted on doing so” and because “the charges were initiated at the instance of the officer by his making an arrest and filling out a uniform citation”
• affirming lower court that “correctly found that [defendant’s] conduct was not directed at [plaintiff], as required by § 46(1)”
• finding $54,700 compensatory award in § 1983 action required a “single digit[]” ratio between compensatory and punitive damages
• reducing a punitive damages award in a § 1983 case where physical injury was minimal “so that the ratio of punitive to compensatory damages is in the single digits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).