South Cent. Bell v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 726 So. 2d 1202 - Entergy Mississippi, Inc. v. Burdette Gin Co. (1998), 658 So. 2d 1352 - Peoples Bank and Trust Company v. Cermack (1995)
21 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 Fowler Butane Gas Co. v. Varner · Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Danaher · 431 So. 2d 475 - City of Jackson v. Locklar · 483 So. 2d 254 - Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Crenshaw · 431 So. 2d 454 - Tideway Oil Programs, Inc. v. Serio
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, there is no right to an award of punitive damages and such damages are to be awarded only in extreme cases.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general rule, exemplary or punitive damages are not ordinarily recoverable in actions for breach of contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“cannot come from a precise formula, but rather must come from the trial judge's life experience.”
2 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.