Centrol, Inc. v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2022
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Harris v. McRae · Permann v. South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Division · Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc. · Kunkel v. United Security Ins. Co. of New Jersey · Littlefield v. Fort Dodge Messenger
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, where the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice, actual or presumed, or in any case of wrongful injury to animals, being subjects of property, committed intentionally or by willful and wanton misconduct, in disregard of humanity, the jury, in addition to the actual damage, may give damages for the sake of example, and by way of punishing the defendant. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. Henry
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.