107 Ind. App. 356 - Sinclair Refining Co. v. McCullom’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1984
9 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 American Express Co. v. Patterson · Moore v. Crose · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Shanks
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It must be conceded, as a general rule, that in order that there may be a recovery of exemplary damages, there must be present in the circumstances some element of malice, fraud, or gross negligence. In other words, the wrongs to which exemplary damages are applicable are those, which besides violating a right and inflicting actual damages, import insult, fraud, or. oppression and are not merely injuries, but injuries inflicted in a spirit of wanton disregard of the rights of others. “Mere negligence alone does not authorize punitive damages. . . .””
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.