Cates v. Darland’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2006
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Roan v. Smith · 231 Mo. App. 187 - Jones v. West Side Buick Co. · United States v. Marine · Boise Dodge, Inc. v. Clark · J. Truett Payne Company v. Jackson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since evil intent (malice), actual or presumed, is or may be an important factor in the awarding of exemplary damages; since such damages are awarded on the theory of punishment; * * * and since when evil intent, actual or presumed, is a material element or issue in a case, similar prior acts may, with judicial approval, be admitted in evidence to establish such intent. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The case of Garland Coal and Mining Co. v. Few, 267 F.2d 785 [10th Cir.1959], cited by Appellant, considers the Oklahoma exemplary damage statute, 23 O.S.1971, § 9, and the specified purposes as being both to punish the offender and to benefit the general public. It holds that the question of the amount necessary to properly punish the Appellant and to benefit the general public is best left to the judgment of the jury, where no flagrant abuse or error has occurred. . . ."”
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.