Ismail v. Cohen

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing remittitur and reinstating original jury verdict of $650,000 compensatory damages for police brutality claim
• reinstating compensatory damages award based on inter alia the plaintiffs mental distress, even though the plaintiff did not offer testimony concerning counseling for his mental anguish
• affirming award of $650,000 where plaintiff was beaten by police officer, sustained head trauma, displaced vertebrae, and cracked ribs, and suffered from considerable mental and emotional injury
• sustaining 19 an award against one officer totaling roughly $319,000, accounting for inflation
• appellate review focuses on whether the verdict lies “within [the] reasonable range”
• admission into evidence that officer committed similar misconduct in another incident was not error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Turley v. ISG Lackawanna, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2014-12-17· cited 184×
• Zeno v. Pine Plains Central School District
  Second Circuit· 2012-12-03· cited 183×
• Mathie v. Fries
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-31· cited 173×
• Blissett v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1995-09-25· cited 159×
• Stampf v. Long Island Railroad
  Second Circuit· 2014-07-30· cited 133×
• Dancy v. McGinley
  Second Circuit· 2016-12-07· cited 129×
• Anderson Group, LLC v. City of Saratoga Springs
  Second Circuit· 2015-10-19· cited 92×
• Patrolmen's Benevolent Ass'n v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2002-10-17· cited 81×
• Jean-Laurent v. Hennessy
  E.D. New York· 2011-10-24· cited 77×
• United States v. Curley
  Second Circuit· 2011-04-25· cited 75×
• Vladimir Berkovich v. Winslow Hicks Stephen G. Tate, Individually and as New York City Police Officers City of New York, a Municipal Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1991-01-04· cited 68×
• DiSorbo v. Hoy
  Second Circuit· 2003-08-29· cited 65×
• Walz v. Town of Smithtown
  Second Circuit· 1995-01-24· cited 61×
• Paolitto v. John Brown E.&C., Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1998-07-17· cited 58×
• Edwin Hardeman v. Monsanto Company
  Ninth Circuit· 2021-05-14· cited 57×
• Mugavero v. ARMS ACRES, INC.
  S.D. New York· 2010-01-15· cited 51×
• Katt v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2001-06-21· cited 47×
• Gross v. Lunduski
  W.D. New York· 2014-12-18· cited 38×
• Nikos Kidis v. Jean Reid
  Sixth Circuit· 2020-09-25· cited 35×
• Barrett v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2006-07-12· cited 29×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-28· cited 13,852×
• Jett v. Dallas Independent School District
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 2,093×
• Savino Dagnello v. Long Island Rail Road Company
  Second Circuit· 1961-03-24· cited 237×
• Alonzo Wayne Taylor v. The Washington Terminal Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-04-08· cited 166×
• Thomas Zarcone v. William M. Perry, James Windsor, Robert J. Anderson and Patrick Giambalvo
  Second Circuit· 1978-03-03· cited 151×
• Fiacco v. City of Rensselaer
  Second Circuit· 1986-02-11· cited 139×
• James Morrissey, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee v. National Maritime Union of America, Defendant-Appellant-Appellee, and Joseph Curran
  Second Circuit· 1976-06-24· cited 118×
• United States v. William C. Brennan
  Second Circuit· 1986-08-11· cited 109×
• Ismail v. Cohen
  Second Circuit· 1990-03-27· cited 96×
• Luke Bonura, Jr., Cross-Appellant v. Sea Land Service, Inc., Cross-Appellee, Atlantic & Gulfstevedores, Inc., Intervenor
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-02-13· cited 83×
• In the Matter of Innovative Construction Systems, Inc., Debtor-Appellant
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-07-09· cited 66×
• Manning v. Altec, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1973-12-05· cited 55×
• Martell v. Boardwalk Enterprises, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1984-11-13· cited 53×
• Ismail v. Cohen
  S.D. New York· 1989-02-07· cited 42×
• Alf Reinertsen v. George W. Rogers Construction Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1975-07-03· cited 22×
• Vitale v. Hagan
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-04-28· cited 20×
• Vitale v. Hagan
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-07-16· cited 18×
• Loughman v. AW Flint Co., Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-07-30· cited 8×
• Ismail v. Cohen
  S.D. New York· 1989-05-03· cited 3×