Feeney v. Scott County’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2002
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Meyer v. Nottger · Kurtenbach v. TeKippe · McCarthy v. J. P. Cullen & Son Corp. · Young v. City of Des Moines · State v. Lawr
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ejxemplary damages are not awarded as a matter of right; rather, their allowance rests with the factfinder. Their award “depends upon whether under the facts in a particular case such [an] award is appropriate in order to punish an offending party or discourage others from similar wrongful conduct.” This determination depends upon the existence of malice — either actual or legal malice. “[L]egal malice ... may be established by showing wrongful or illegal conduct committed or continued with a willful or reckless disregard of another’s rights,””
2 later decisions 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.