Baker v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Malone (1998), Jaramillo v. Providence Washington Insurance (1994)
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith · Ott v. Keller · Walton v. State ex rel. Road Commission · Lazenby Ex Rel. Lazenby v. Universal Underwriters Insurance · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Village of Hempstead
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]unitive damages liability coverage is not an asset which can be used to measure true punishment and ... therefore, it should not be considered by the jury in assessing a defendant's financial standing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our application of the clear language of the policy promotes the reasonable expectations of the average insured who contemplates protection against claims of any character for which he becomes liable in the operation of an automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actual bodily injury or property damage is a prerequisite to punitive damages, and the punishment must be reasonably related to the injury or damage”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.