KARK-TV v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Journal-Gazette Co. v. Bandido's, Inc. (1999), Little Rock Newspapers, Inc. v. Dodrill (1983)
21 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Schenck v. United States · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury’s refusal to award punitive damages would ordinarily render the error harmless, but appellees were permitted to present evidence of the appellant’s net worth. We have held on a number of occasions that where the issue of punitive damages is erroneously submitted to the jury, together with the defendant’s financial condition, an award of compensatory damages is tainted and cannot stand. Dalrymple v. Fields, 276 Ark. 185 , 633 S.W.2d 362 (1982); Life and Casualty Insurance Co. v. Padgett, 241 Ark. 353 , 407 S.W.2d 728 (1966). (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Abbott
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.