526 So. 2d 185 - Evering v. Smithwick’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2001
6 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 Wells v. Dungey · 359 So. 2d 430 - Wackenhut Corp. v. Canty · 349 So. 2d 1181 - Bould v. Touchette · Colonial Stores, Inc. v. Scarbrough · Laskey v. Smith
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To preserve his right to contend on appeal that an award of punitive damages is excessive, it is incumbent on the defendant to introduce evidence of his net worth, if evidence has not been introduced by plaintiff, and in the absence of such evidence an appellate court cannot say that an award of punitive damages is excessive in that it would bankrupt the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Albritton v. Gandy“Consequently, there is no evidence in the record to substantiate the claim that the punitive damage award would bankrupt ... [the defendant], so the award must be sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Albritton v. Gandy
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.