State Ex Rel. Smith v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Richard E. Ivie, Jimmie R. Ivie, LaDonna Small, and Bernard Ivie v. Arnold L. Smith and Sidney B. Smith (2014), Waldon v. Covington (1980)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 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 Coonis v. Rogers · Beggs v. Universal CIT Credit Corporation · Chappell v. City of Springfield · Glick Ex Rel. McGinty v. Ballentine Produce Inc. · Gilkeson v. Missouri Pacific Railway 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Plunitive damages are not compensatory, but are imposed for the purpose of punishment and deterrence to prevent the wrongdoer or others from engaging in the same type of act again. [Citations omitted] This policy should not be thwarted merely because the wrongdoer manages to kill the party wronged or the party happens to die before the action can be brought."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“should not be thwarted merely because the wrongdoer manages to kill the party wronged or the party happens to die before the action can be brought. Any change in this policy or the limitation of the doctrine of punitive damages ... should come from the legislature and not from the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[The] duplication of damages is impossible where there are two causes of action. The wrongful death damages begin with the death of the person wronged. The survival action damages end with the death of the person wronged. There is no overlap or duplication of damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Flood
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.