Watson v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp. (2004), 152 N.C. App. 15 - Guthrie v. Conroy (2002)
32 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 Oestreicher v. American National Stores, Inc. · Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance · Hinson v. Dawson · 63 Cal. App. 4th 1128 - Weeks v. Baker & McKenzie · Pinnix v. . Griffin
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a rule, you cannot have a cause of action for punitive damages by itself. If the complainant fails to plead or prove his cause of action, then he is not allowed an award of punitive damages because he must establish his cause of action as a prerequisite for a punitive damage award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The purpose of the law is to place the party as near as may be in the condition which he would have occupied had he not suffered the injury complained of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the function of deterrence ... will not be served if the wealth of the defendant allows him to absorb the award with little or no discomfort.”
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.