36 N.C. App. 103 - Robinson v. Duszynski’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Arnold IV v. Eastern Air Lines Inc (1982), 44 N.C. App. 638 - Bost v. Riley (1980)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Page v. Sloan · Oestreicher v. American National Stores, Inc. · Singleton v. Stewart · Hinson v. Dawson · Nasco Equipment Co. v. Mason
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case of alleged negligence, punitive damages may be awarded upon the showing that the negligence was gross, willful or wanton. Negligence is gross, willful or wanton when the wrongdoer acts with a conscious and intentional disregard of and indifference to the rights and safety of others.”
1 later decision 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.