Ricky Baker v. David Alan Dorfman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an argument raised for the first time on appeal is ordinarily waived
• ruling that an argument not raised in the district court is ordinarily waived
• recognizing that ʺwhere a district court denies a motion for a new trial made on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, such a ruling is not reviewable on appealʺ
• finding that negligently misdiagnosing a plaintiff with HIV was likely to constitute a special circumstance to allow for the recovery of purely emotional harm
• finding that negligently misdiagnosing a plaintiff with HIV was likely to constitute a special circumstance to allow for the recovery of purely emotional harm
• noting that we have been “more likely to exercise our discretion” to consider on appeal an issue not ■ raised in the district court “where consideration of the issue is necessary to avoid manifest injustice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rudolf v. Shayne, Dachs, Stanisci, Corker & Sauer
  New York Court of Appeals· 2007-04-26· cited 371×
• Official Committee Of The Unsecured Creditors Of Color Tile, Inc. v. Coopers & Lybrand, Llp
  Second Circuit· 2003-02-20· cited 243×
• Chai v. Commissioner
  Second Circuit· 2017-03-20· cited 215×
• Dennis Paese v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company
  Second Circuit· 2006-05-24· cited 214×
• Scs Communications, Inc. And Stephen C. Swid, Appellants-Cross-Appellees v. The Herrick Company, Inc. And Norton Herrick, Appellees-Cross-Appellants
  Second Circuit· 2004-03-03· cited 187×
• Diane Leibovitz v. New York City Transit Authority, Joseph Hoffman and Monroe Easter
  Second Circuit· 2001-06-06· cited 180×
• Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Ltd. v. Ficeto
  Second Circuit· 2012-04-13· cited 170×
• Keith Cross and Alfred Francis v. New York City Transit Authority and Gregory Warren, Docket No. 04-2912-Cv
  Second Circuit· 2005-08-02· cited 168×
• Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Color Tile, Inc. v. Coopers & Lybrand, LLP
  Second Circuit· 2003-02-20· cited 154×
• Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. v. Ugi Utilities, Inc., Docket No. 04-2409-Cv
  Second Circuit· 2005-09-09· cited 139×
• Jane M. Booking v. General Star Management Company and General Star Indemnity Company
  Second Circuit· 2001-06-20· cited 126×
• Schipani v. McLeod
  Second Circuit· 2008-08-15· cited 115×
• Davis v. Shah
  Second Circuit· 2016-03-24· cited 115×
• ING Global v. United Parcel Service Oasis Supply Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2014-06-30· cited 115×
• United States v. Gomez
  Second Circuit· 2017-12-05· cited 109×
• 4 Pillar Dynasty LLC v. New York & Co., Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2019-08-08· cited 102×
• Green v. City of Mount Vernon
  S.D. New York· 2015-03-31· cited 91×
• In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001
  S.D. New York· 2005-01-18· cited 79×
• Virgilio v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2005-04-29· cited 77×
• Lloyd v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2017-03-31· cited 64×

Cites

45 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-12· cited 4,586×
• Singleton v. Wulff
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-01· cited 3,831×
• Robert J. McCarthy v. John Manson, Commissioner of Corrections of the State of Connecticut
  Second Circuit· 1983-08-09· cited 513×
• Stanley Cohen, Gerald A. Garfinkle, Eastern Artists and Drafting Materials, Inc. v. Elliott Koenig, and Robert Koenig
  Second Circuit· 1994-06-20· cited 348×
• Alvin Joel TYLER, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1992-03-10· cited 315×
• Metromedia Co. v. Fugazy
  Second Circuit· 1992-12-17· cited 306×
• Bovsun v. Sanperi
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-02-23· cited 247×
• Johnson v. State of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-07-02· cited 237×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 99,479 Samuel Mallis and Franklyn B. Kupferman, Cross-Appellants v. Bankers Trust Company, Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1983-09-01· cited 229×
• Kenford Co. v. County of Erie
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-02-21· cited 190×
• Readco, Inc., R.D.P. Associates, Lan Associates Xii and Antonio Reale v. Marine Midland Bank Eagle Rock Holding, Inc., a New York Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1996-04-10· cited 180×
• Kennedy v. McKesson Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-03-31· cited 141×
• Rizk v. Cohen
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-02-16· cited 134×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1995-12-13· cited 118×
• Anne DAILEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOCIETE GENERALE, Defendant-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1997-03-05· cited 110×
• Bernard J. Mortise and Cheryl L. Mortise v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1996-12-24· cited 106×
• Muller v. Costello
  Second Circuit· 1999-08-11· cited 100×
• Burnette v. Carothers
  Second Circuit· 1999-09-13· cited 100×
• Schlaifer Nance & Company, Inc. v. Estate Of Andy Warhol
  Second Circuit· 1999-10-19· cited 99×
• Hermine Hanlin v. Marvin M. Mitchelson
  Second Circuit· 1986-07-09· cited 88×