Borkowski v. Borkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Smith v. Lightning Bolt Productions, Inc. (1988), Roy Export Co. Establishment v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1982)
6 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gross, wanton, or willful fraud or other morally culpable conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““[i]t is not essential, as the Appellate Division stated, that punitive damages be allowed in a fraud case only where the acts had been aimed at the public generally.””
2 later decisions 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.