Gibeau v. Nellis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that compensatory damages are not required as a matter of law where the evidence was ambiguous as to the cause of injuries
• holding that 51 compensatory damages are not required as a matter of law where the evidence was ambiguous as to the cause of injuries
• finding that the jury should have been instructed to award nominal damages if it found a constitutional violation, even if it did not find any injury caused
• “[b]ecause nominal damages are mandatory under these circumstances, our [remand for entry of judgment awarding such damages without a new trial] does not impermis-sibly invade the province of the jury”
• officer struck inmate “approximately three times in the head with a six-inch long, one-half-inch diameter flashlight”
• “[plaintiff] was struck by [defendant] approximately three times[;] [i]t is possible that the jury considered only the last blow to be excessive, and it may have concluded that the [injury] was caused by the first blow”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

44 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Beate Bernheim v. Jeffrey Litt
  Second Circuit· 1996-03-25· cited 568×
• Anthony G. Gill v. Chris Pidlypchak, Correction Officer T.G. Dygert, Correction Officer
  Second Circuit· 2004-11-19· cited 371×
• LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher
  Second Circuit· 1995-09-21· cited 250×
• Kirsch v. Fleet Street, Ltd.
  Second Circuit· 1998-06-25· cited 246×
• Kerman v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2004-06-28· cited 237×
• Eagleston v. Guido
  Second Circuit· 1994-12-07· cited 201×
• United States Ex Rel. Chorches v. American Medical Response, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2017-07-27· cited 185×
• Howard v. Walgreen Co.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-05-13· cited 145×
• Amato v. City of Saratoga Springs
  Second Circuit· 1999-03-15· cited 141×
• Joan Gronowski v. John D. Spencer, Mayor of the City of Yonkers, Sued in His Individual Capacity, and City of Yonkers, Docket No. 04-2605-Cv
  Second Circuit· 2005-09-20· cited 127×
• Guides, Ltd. v. Yarmouth Group Property Management, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2002-07-02· cited 117×
• Caruolo v. John Crane, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2000-08-31· cited 99×
• Rentas v. Ruffin
  Second Circuit· 2016-03-08· cited 92×
• Marfia v. T.C. Ziraat Bankasi
  Second Circuit· 1998-06-03· cited 81×
• Atkins v. New York City
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-05· cited 76×
• Keith Haywood v. Richard Koehler, Captain Garcia, Captain Small
  Second Circuit· 1996-03-18· cited 56×
• Thompson & Wallace of Memphis, Inc. v. Falconwood Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-12-04· cited 40×
• Ali v. Nyc Police Officer Donald Kipp
  Second Circuit· 2018-05-22· cited 40×
• Conte v. Emmons
  Second Circuit· 2018-07-10· cited 32×
• Microsoft Corp. v. United States
  Second Circuit· 2016-07-14· cited 29×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hudson v. McMillian
  Supreme Court· 1992-02-25· cited 8,199×
• Carey v. Piphus
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-21· cited 3,438×
• Dimick v. Schiedt
  Supreme Court· 1935-01-07· cited 819×
• Collins v. State of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-09-17· cited 245×
• Gentile v. County of Suffolk
  Second Circuit· 1991-02-11· cited 97×
• Miner v. City of Glens Falls
  Second Circuit· 1993-07-26· cited 94×
• Kenneth G. Hicks, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Brown Group, Inc., D/B/A Brown Shoe Company, Inc., Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-06-04· cited 93×
• Smith v. Lightning Bolt Productions, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1988-11-10· cited 89×
• Smith v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1984-11-16· cited 82×
• Baskin v. Hawley
  Second Circuit· 1986-12-18· cited 80×
• Ann Walker v. Anderson Electrical Connectors, a Subsidiary of Square D Company
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-10-18· cited 70×
• Gibeau v. Nellis
  Second Circuit· 1994-02-28· cited 67×
• Nancy Ebker, Cross-Appellee v. Tan Jay International, Ltd. And Peter J. Nygard, Tan Jay International, Ltd., Cross-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1984-07-17· cited 63×
• Irwin Heller, Cross-Appellee v. Champion International Corporation, Cross-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1989-12-06· cited 16×