Harbin v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 584 So. 2d 397 - Lyle v. Mladinich · Herrington v. Spell · 680 So. 2d 812 - Hopewell Enterprises v. Trustmark Bank · Morrison v. Means · 326 So. 2d 471 - Deaton v. Delta Democrat Publishing 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he existence of actual damages is, in Mississippi, a necessary prerequisite to the jury's right to consider and assess punitive damages.”
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.