Frick v. Abell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 13 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. (1984), Wise v. Bravo (1981)
21 federal appellate · 13 district · 54 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 Abraham v. S. E. Onorato Garages · Leo Payne Pontiac, Inc. v. Ratliff · Vela v. People · Ress v. Rediess · Foster v. Redding
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by examining the facts of the case to discover if the jury was impermissibly motivated by prejudice or properly guided by the purposes for exemplary damages.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The requirements for the award of exemplary damages are met if the defendant, while conscious of his conduct and cognizant of existing conditions, knew, or should have known, that the injury would probably result from his acts.”
3 later decisions 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.