Morgan v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 54 Cal. 3d 105 - Adams v. Murakami · 8 Cal. 4th 1 - Hensler v. City of Glendale · Aryeh v. Canon Business Solutions, Inc. · Treadwell v. Nickel
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The California Supreme Court has declined to prescribe any particular standard for assessing a defendant's ability to pay punitive damages [citation], but it has held that actual evidence of the defendant's financial condition is essential.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f a plaintiff is unable to provide the court with evidence due to the defendant's failure to comply with discovery obligations, then punitive damages may be awarded without the requisite evidence.”
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.