Newman v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
350 F.2d 602 · 1965
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1988
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Frazier v. Cities Service Oil Co. · Watkins v. Layton · United States v. Featherston · Donley v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. · Tidewater Oil Co. v. Jackson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mere commission of a nuisance justifying an award of actual damages would be insufficient to justify the assessment of punitive damages as a penalty. In other words, to be liable for actual damages one need only create or commit a nuisance, but to be punished for it he must create and persistently maintain it with a reckless disregard for the rights of others.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“no reason to doubt that Kansas courts would embrace the nuisance theory for punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Cudahy Co.“the proof falls far short of showing an indifferent maintenance of a nuisance”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Cudahy Co.
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.