Fleet v. Hollenkemp’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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1. “[W]hether exemplary damages should or should not be given does not depend upon the form of action so much as upon the extent and nature of the injury done and the manner in which it was inflicted, whether by negligence, wantoness [sic], or with or without malice. In another early punitive damages case in which the defendant raised the trespass-case distinction, the court remarked that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cathey v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.