Weldon v. Town Properties, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2008
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Dallas Nat. Bank v. Dallas County · Breece v. Jett · Arnold v. Prange · LS DOUGLAS v. Hoeh · Compton v. Williams Bros. Pipeline Company
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.
“In Breece [v. Jett, 556 S.W.2d 696 (Mo.App.1977)] our court held that the trial court erred in submitting a single puni tive damage instruction in a two count case. In Douglas v. Hoeh, 595 S.W.2d 434 (Mo.App.1980), our court distinguished Breece, noting that the failure to submit a separate punitive damages instruction for each claim was not necessarily erroneous. In Hoeh , each of the two counts was identical, except one contained a provision for vicarious liability. Our court found that a single punitive damages instruction may be adequate where the course of conduct in each of the verdict directors was identical.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKamely v. Hession“If you find in favor of plaintiff under Instruction No. 8, or Instruction No. 10, and if you believe the conduct of defendant as submitted in either Instruction No. 8 or Instruction No. 10 was willful, wanton, or malicious, then in addition to any damages to which you find plaintiff entitled under Instruction No. 12, you may award plaintiff an additional amount as punitive damages in such sum as you believe will serve to punish defendant and to deter defendant and others from like conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKamely v. Hession“Our courts have stated the general rule for determining damages in suits for conversion of ordinary personal property as, ‘the reasonable market value of the personal property at the time of the conversion.’ Breece v. Jett, 556 S.W.2d 696, 709 (Mo.App.1977).”
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.