Strauss v. Biggs’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2015
1 district · 20 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 Jardel Co., Inc. v. Hughes · 139 N.J. Super. 351 - Belinski v. Goodman · Wilk Dc v. American Medical Association · Lampkins v. State · Riegel v. Aastad Ex Rel. Aastad
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Punitive damages are damages other than compensatory or nominal damages, awarded against a person to punish him for his outrageous conduct and to deter him and others like him from similar conduct in the future.” Jardel, 523 A.2d at 529 . (quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts, § 908 (1979)). “Conduct is ‘outrageous’ because of ‘evil motive or reckless indifference to the rights of others.’ ” Id. (quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts, § 908, comment b (1979)). “The wilful or wanton standard necessary to justify imposi tion of punitive damages refers to a ‘distinct state of mind, one a conscious awareness, the other a conscious indifference.’ ” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... the appeal is grounded on allegations that the trial court erred as a matter of law or abused its discretion in submitting claims to the jury and in admitting certain evidence, the reviewing court will first consider whether the specific rulings at issue were correct. If the court finds error or abuse of discretion in the rulings, it must then determine whether the mistakes constituted significant prejudice so as to have denied the appellant a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No liability shall be based upon asserted negligence unless expert medical testimony is presented as to the alleged deviation from the applicable standard of care in the specific circumstances of the case and as to the causation of the alleged personal injury [[Image here]]”
1 later decision 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.