Faubion v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Romero v. Mervyn's (1989), United Nuclear Corp. v. Allendale Mutual Insurance (1985)
2 district · 52 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 State v. Heisler · Robinson v. Mittry Bros. · Evans v. Gaisford · Brobst v. El Paso & Southwestern Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [a] consideration of the various rules and the cases supporting the same leads us to the conclusion that the amount of punitive damages must be left to the jury’s sound discretion based on the circumstances of each individual case, but must not be so unrelated to the injury and actual damages proven as to plainly manifest passion and prejudice rather than reason and justice.””
3 later decisions 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.