Henderson v. Hassur’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 30 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Wooderson v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (1984), Nordstrom v. Miller (1980)
12 federal appellate · 30 district · 80 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 Mobil Oil Corp. v. Lightcap · Brown v. Wichita State University · Lightcap v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Brown v. Wichita State University · Highland Lumber Co., Inc. v. Knudson
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In assessing punitive damages the nature, extent, and enormity of the wrong, the intent of the party committing it, and all circumstances attending the transaction involved should be considered. Any mitigating circumstances which may bear upon any of the above factors may be considered to reduce such damages.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] principle has been consistently followed in this state. “The relation existing between a principal and agent is a fiduciary one demanding conditions of trust and confidence which require of the agent the same obligation of individual service and loyalty as is imposed upon a trustee in favor of his beneficiary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all business transactions affecting the subject matter of an agency, it is the duty of the agent to act in good faith and with loyalty to further advance the interests of the principal.”
2 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.