Engels v. Ranger Bar, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
4 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 213 Cal. App. 2d 729 - Lingsch v. Savage · City of Colton v. Schwebach · Jasper v. Smith · Wangen v. Knudson · Wolford v. Freeman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Punitive damages must be relatively large to accomplish the objective of punishing the wrongdoer and deterring others from similar wrongdoing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`firmly and definitely convinced a mistake has been made.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacK v. MacK
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.