MacKela v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell · Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. · Gamble v. Stevenson · Steinke v. SC DEPT. OF LABOR, LICENSING · Steinke v. South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) defendant's degree of culpability; (2) duration of the conduct; (3) defendant's awareness or concealment; (4) the existence of similar past conduct; (5) likelihood the award will deter the defendant or others from like conduct; (6) whether the award is reasonably related to the harm likely to result from such conduct; (7) defendant's ability to pay; and finally, (8) ... "other factors" deemed appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Kellett“Punitive damages are recoverable in conversion cases if the defendant's acts have been willful, reckless, and/or committed with conscious indifference to the rights of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Kellett
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.