Beebe v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 35 Colo. App. 317 - McNeill v. Allen (1975), 38 Colo. App. 286 - Silverstein v. Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (1976)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 55 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 Publix Cab Co. v. Colorado National Bank of Denver · Whatley v. Wood · 32 Colo. App. 337 - Conyers v. Lee · Williams v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland · Spencer v. Murphy
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is generally held that the basic purpose of entering a judgment for exemplary damages against a defendant in a civil action is to punish and penalize him for certain wrongful and aggravated conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Exemplary damages. In all civil actions in which damages are assessed by a jury for a wrong done to the person, or to personal or real property, and the injury complained of is attended by circumstances of fraud, malice or insult, or a wanton and reckless disregard of the injured party’s rights and feelings, the jury, in addition to the actual damages sustained by such party, may award him reasonable exemplary damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.