Schaefer v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia (1992), Philip Morris Inc. v. Angeletti (2000)
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 52 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 Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc. · Mississippi v. Turner · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers · McGrath v. Kristensen
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]o entitle one to [punitive] damages there must be an element of fraud, or malice, or evil intent ... entering into and forming part of the wrongful act. It is in such cases as these that exemplary or punitive damages are awarded as a punishment for the evil motive or intent with which the act is done, and as an example or warning to others.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“There must be a direct nexus between the tortious act and performance or breach of the terms and conditions of the parties’ underlying the contract.... The common thread is that the tortious conduct and the contract [are] so intertwined that one [cannot] be viewed in isolation from the other.... [In some cases] the tort consists] of nothing more than an allegedly negligent performance of contract obligations .... In one form or another, then, the tort [arises] directly from performance or breach of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“conduct of an extraordinary nature characterized by a wanton or reckless disregard for the rights of others.” Schaefer, supra 322 Md. at 300 , 587 A.2d 491 (citations omitted). In contrast, for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.