397 Pa. Super. 395 - Hess v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2022
2 federal appellate · 20 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 318 Pa. Super. 90 - Delahanty v. First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A. · Feld v. Merriam · Rizzo v. Haines · 344 Pa. Super. 367 - Standard Pipeline Coating Co. v. Solomon & Teslovich, Inc. · 371 Pa. Super. 625 - Nigro v. Nigro
Most-quoted passages
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“We know that in order to impose punitive damages, the wrongful conduct must be outrageous. Conduct is outrageous when it is “malicious, wanton, reckless, willful or oppressive”. Rizzo v. Haines, 520 Pa. 484, 506 , 555 A.2d 58, 69 (1989). Such conduct must show the actor’s evil motive or reckless indifference to the rights of others. Feld v. Merriam, 506 Pa. 383 , 485 A.2d 742 (1984).”
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.