Chambers v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 206 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 313 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 318 Pa. Super. 90 - Delahanty v. First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A. (1984), Feld v. Merriam (1984)
24 federal appellate · 206 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 Richette v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Hughes v. Babcock · Muroski v. Hnath · Ischo v. Bailey · Super v. West Penn Power Co.
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 313 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Punitive damages' are damages, other than compensatory or nominal damages, awarded against a person to punish him for his outrageous conduct.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Punitive damages are awarded only for outrageous conduct, that is, for acts done with a bad motive or with a reckless indifference to the interests of others.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Although there is no fixed rule governing the amount which should be awarded as exemplary damages, it must not be disproportionate to the award of compensatory damages, (citing cases) ... in determining the amount of punitive damages, not merely the act itself must be considered, but all of the surrounding circumstances, including the motives of the wrongdoer, and the relations between the parties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.