Roberson v. Ammons’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 539 So. 2d 218 - Green Oil Co. v. Hornsby (1989), Lewis Charles Hall Motors Inc v. Lewis (1998)
40 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 Roan v. Smith · 362 So. 2d 836 - Ott v. Fox · Roan v. McCaleb · 46 Ala. App. 50 - Carolina Casualty Insurance Company v. Tisdale · Ray Hughes Chevrolet, Inc. v. Gordon
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, evidence of past dealing of a party with nonparties is excluded as irrelevant; however, when intent of the party is at issue, that party’s prior conduct and acts on other occasions which have a bearing upon that party’s intent in a subsequent action are competent evidence.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The award of punitive damages is within the sound discretion of the jury, considering all attendant circumstances. Randell v. Banzhoff, 375 So.2d 445 (Ala. 1979). The jury’s award is to punish the wrongdoer based upon the enormity of the wrong to the plaintiff, as well as the necessity to prevent similar wrongs from being committed in the future. Todd v. United Steelworkers of America, 441 So.2d 889 (Ala.1983).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“although punitive damages need bear no particular relationship to actual damages, they, nonetheless, must not exceed an amount that will accomplish society's goals of punishment and deterrence.”
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.