Preston v. Murty’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 455 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 563 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Moskovitz v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center (1994), Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia (1992)
28 federal appellate · 455 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 Leichtamer v. American Motors Corp. · Columbus Finance, Inc. v. Howard · Detling v. Chockley · 10 Ohio St. 275 - Lessee of Sullivant v. Weaver · Locafrance United States Corp. v. Interstate Distribution Services, 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 563 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that state of mind under which a person's conduct is characterized by hatred, ill will or a spirit of revenge, or (2) a conscious disregard for the rights and safety of other persons that has a great probability of causing substantial harm.”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage““We also have focused on the culpable mental state of the defendant in cases in which we defined the standards for recovery of punitive damages. In Preston v. Murty (1987), 32 Ohio St.3d 334 , 512 N.E.2d 1174 , we recognized that because ‘punitive damages are assessed for punishment and not compensation, a positive element of conscious wrongdoing is always required. This element has been termed conscious, deliberate or intentional. It requires the party to possess knowledge of the harm that might be caused by his behavior.’ Id. at 335 , 512 N.E.2d at 1176 .””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“extremely reckless behavior revealing a conscious disregard for a great and obvious harm.”
11 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.