393 So. 2d 467 - Commodore Corp. v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2008
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Fowler Butane Gas Co. v. Varner · Belk v. Rosamond · Teche Lines, Inc. v. Pope · The Greyhound Corp. v. Townsend · Atkinson v. Dixie Greyhound Lines, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have held many times that in the event the jury awards punitive damages, the amount is solely within the jury's discretion unless arbitrary and unreasonable. The amount cannot be determined by any fixed rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“against the overwhelming weight of the evidence”
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.