Hofer v. Lavender’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel (1994), Moreno v. Sterling Drug, Inc. (1990)
4 federal appellate · 67 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District)
Relationships
Relies on Sanchez v. Schindler · Barnes v. Smith · Tietjens v. General Motors Corporation · 171 W. Va. 397 - Perry v. Melton · Castleberry v. Goolsby Building Corp.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 8306 § 5 of the Act states that: Nothing in this law shall be taken or held to prohibit the recovery of exemplary damages by the surviving husband, wife, heirs of his or her body, or such of them as there may be of any deceased employe[e] whose death is occasioned by homicide from the wilful act or omission or gross negligence of any person, firm or corporation from the employer of such employe[e] at the time of the injury causing the death of the latter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“for losses too remote to be considered as elements of strict compensation”); Perry v. Melton, 171 W.Va. 397 , 299 S.E.2d 8, 13 (1982) (punitive damages serve added function of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Texas case law indicates that the public policy for exemplary damages includes equally important considerations other than punishment of the wrongdoer.”
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.