Oller v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. (1982), Kitchens v. Bryan County National Bank (1987)
8 federal appellate · 22 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 Prentis v. Bates · Harrod v. Sanders · Margay Oil Corp. v. Jamison · Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World v. Welch · Horany v. Paris
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The basis for allowance of punitive damages rests upon the principle that they are allowed as a punishment for the benefit of society as a restraint upon the transgressor, and a warning and example serving as a deterrent to commission of like offenses in the future.... When a defendant’s conduct is such as to amount to fraud, oppression or malice, or the act is wilfully and wantonly done with criminal indifference to the plaintiff’s rights, exemplary damages are allowable.” (Citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'punishment for the benefit of society as a restraint upon the transgressor, and a warning and example serving as a deterrent to commission of like offenses in the future.'”
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.