Noe v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Coursen v. A.H. Robins Co. (1985), Pavon v. Swift Transportation Co. (1999)
12 federal appellate · 18 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Punitive damages can only be justified on the theory of determent. See Hodel, The Doctrine of Exemplary Damages in Oregon, 44 Or.L.Rev. 175 (1965). It is only in those instances where the violation of societal interests is sufficiently great and of a kind that sanctions would tend to prevent, that the use of punitive damages is proper. * * *"”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“sufficiently aggravated violation of societal interests to justify the sanctions of punitive damages as a preventative measure,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Harrell v. Ames
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.