Dr. v. J. Devine, and Cross-Appellee v. James S. Patteson, Jr., and Cross-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
242 F.2d 828 · 1957
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 1991 · most notably Duncan v. Duncan (1967), Flame Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers of America (1962)
35 federal appellate · 3 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 Dimick v. Schiedt · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Neese v. Southern Railway Co. · Simmons v. Fish · 39 Cal. 2d 462 - Leipert v. Honold
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to punitive damages the award is peculiarly within the discretion of the jury. We cannot say that the discretion was abused, and we do not set aside the verdict of $1.00.”
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.