Basden v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1997
4 federal appellate · 14 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 Fawcett Publications, Inc. v. Morris · Oller v. Hicks · Cities Service Oil Company v. Merritt · 18 Utah 2d 135 - Schow v. Guardtone, Inc. · Blakeney v. Home Owners' Loan Corporation
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. Measured by the wealth of the defendant, the amount awarded cannot be said to be legally erroneous considering the economic resources of the defendant, and the premise that a punitive damage verdict is peculiarly within the province of the jury and will not be casually interfered with on the grounds of passion or prejudice ... Upon review, such damages will not be held excessive unless it appears they are grossly so, or the result of passion, prejudice, or improper sympathy. Id. However, we did order a remittitur of one million five hundred thousand dollars because”
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.