Gardner v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1986), 483 So. 2d 254 - Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Crenshaw (1985)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 319 So. 2d 652 - Paymaster Oil Mill Company v. Mitchell · 431 So. 2d 454 - Tideway Oil Programs, Inc. v. Serio · 444 So. 2d 803 - Reserve Life Ins. Co. v. McGee · Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. v. Steele · Cooper v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where such breach is attended by intentional wrong, insult, abuse, or such gross negligence as amounts to an independent tort.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Punitive damages do not follow as the day the night every finding that a defendant has been guilty of fraud. Though fraud is frequently an ingredient of an award of punitive damages, it is clear from our cases that more is required.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]unitive damages are recoverable where the defendant has done to the plaintiff such a wrong as to import insult, fraud, oppression or reckless disregard for the rights of the plaintiff.”
3 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.