Williams v. Kaufman County

How courts have described this case

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

• “any punitive damages-to-compensatory damages ‘ratio analysis’ cannot be applied effectively in cases where only nominal damages have been awarded”

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Cited by

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

• MBM Financial Corp. v. Woodlands Operating Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-08-28· cited 520×
• Club Retro, L.L.C. v. Hilton
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-05-06· cited 380×
• Gates v. Texas Deparment of Protective & Regulatory Services
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-07-31· cited 355×
• James v. Harris County
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-08-04· cited 183×
• Jennings v. Jones
  First Circuit· 2007-08-17· cited 177×
• Jeffrey M. Kuha v. City of Minnetonka William Roth Kevin Anderson Dennis Warosh
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-04-27· cited 133×
• Seltzer v. Morton
  Montana Supreme Court· 2007-03-12· cited 122×
• Hutchins v. McDaniels
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-12-21· cited 95×
• Abner v. Kansas City Southern Railroad
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-01-02· cited 65×
• Hampton Co. Nat. Sur., LLC v. Tunica County, Miss.
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-09-18· cited 57×
• Casciola v. F.S. Air Service, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2005-09-23· cited 55×
• Romanski v. Detroit Entertainment, L.L.C.
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-10-28· cited 46×
• Elphage v. Gautreaux
  M.D. Louisiana· 2013-09-03· cited 43×
• Romanski v. Detroit Entertainment
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-10-28· cited 41×
• Villafranca v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-10-28· cited 36×
• Bearoff v. Craton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 30×
• Wallace v. Poulos
  D. Maryland· 2012-03-22· cited 26×
• Broussard v. Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government
  W.D. Louisiana· 2014-09-05· cited 23×
• Brown v. Board of Trustees Sealy Independent School District
  S.D. Texas· 2012-05-09· cited 23×
• Bennett v. Reynolds
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-12-21· cited 22×

Cites

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

• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 119,442×
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Bell v. Wolfish
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 11,438×
• Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 7,185×
• Hope v. Pelzer
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 4,957×
• City of Oklahoma v. Tuttle
  Supreme Court· 1985-08-14· cited 3,810×
• Carey v. Piphus
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-21· cited 3,438×
• BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore
  Supreme Court· 1996-05-28· cited 2,781×
• Smith v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 2,352×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell
  Supreme Court· 2003-04-07· cited 2,318×
• Ybarra v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 2,082×
• United States v. Lanier
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-31· cited 2,070×
• Michigan v. Summers
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 2,036×
• Kolstad v. American Dental Assn.
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-22· cited 1,125×
• Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2001-05-14· cited 874×
• John Russell Webster, Cross-Appellants v. The City of Houston, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-08-09· cited 515×
• United States v. Mateen Yusuf Shabazz, A/K/A Edward L. Eberhart, A/K/A Edward Wallace, and Keith Lamar Parker
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-06-04· cited 480×
• Williams v. Bramer
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-07-22· cited 340×

Other cases named Williams v. Kaufman County

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Williams v. Kaufman County
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-08-19· cited 8×
• Williams v. Kaufman County
  N.D. Texas· 2000-02-07· cited 2×
• Williams v. Kaufman County
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-12-09