129 W. Va. 621 - Ennis v. Brawley’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably 169 W. Va. 673 - Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont (1982), Shell Oil Co. v. Parker (1972)
5 federal appellate · 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 Goddard v. Grand Trunk Railway · Mayer v. Frobe · Wilson v. City of Wheeling · 123 W. Va. 483 - O'Brien v. Snodgrass · 232 Mo. App. 575 - Lyons v. St. Joseph Belt Railway Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The amount of ... actual damages depend on the evidence, not upon the mere caprice or imagination of the jury.... The same is true also as to exemplary damages, for we think such damages should bear some reasonable proportion to the actual damage done else they would be unreasonable and excessive, evincing partiality and prejudice on the part of the jury, so as to justify the court in setting the verdict aside. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A finding of compensatory damages by a jury is an indispensable predicate to a finding of exemplary or punitive damages, and damages awarded by way of punishment must bear a reasonable proportion to compensatory damages so found.”
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.