Watson v. Thibodeau’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Mitchell v. Mitchell (1998), Thacker v. Wentzel (2003)
27 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 Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Armstrong · Bud Wolf Chevrolet, Inc. v. Robertson · Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc. v. Traina · Briggs v. Clinton County Bank & Trust Co. of Frankfort · 172 Ind. App. 434 - Brown v. Heidersbach
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'implies the conscious doing of a wrong because of dishonest purpose or moral obliquity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'is present when a party flagrantly disregards the form and content requirements of the Rules of Appellate Procedure, omits and misstates relevant facts appearing in the record, and files briefs appearing to have been written in a manner calculated to require the maximum expenditure of time both by the opposing party and the reviewing court.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]unitive damages must be supported by clear and convincing evidence. The evidence must overcome the presumption the defendant’s conduct was merely negligent or the result of some honest error. Punitive damages are only recoverable upon evidence the defendant acted with malice, fraud, gross negligence, or oppression which did not result from mistake of law or fact, honest error of judgment, over-zealousness, mere negligence or other human failing. The defendant is cloaked with the rebuttable presumption his actions, though perhaps tortious, were nevertheless nonini-quitous human failings.”
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.