Williams v. Bone’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1999 · most notably Smith v. Wade (1983), Nielson v. Flashberg (1966)
6 federal appellate · 32 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 Brewer v. Second Baptist Church · Roseland v. Phister Mfg. Co. · De Palma v. Weinman · Nichols v. Anderson · Krikorian v. Dailey
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While there is no fixed or mathematical proportion, ratio, or relation between the amount of actual damages and the amount of exemplary or punitive damages, which in a proper case may be awarded, there is ample authority for the proposition that an award must not be so disproportionate to the actual damages sustained as to be the result of passion or prejudice rather than reason, and an award of exemplary damages must bear some reasonable relation or proportion to the actual damages, the real question being whether passion rather than reason dictated the verdict." 74 Idaho at 190, 259 P.2d at 813.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a regular and established business is injured, interrupted or destroyed by the wrongful acts of another, the measure of damages * * * is the net loss and not diminution in gross income. * * * [T]he measure of damages would be the loss of profits, if any, resulting from the wrongful act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * The court instructed the jury on exemplary damages to which defendant took no exception. The instructions so given are not assigned as error, and as a matter of fact, defendant asked instructions covering the issue as to exemplary damages, which were in substance given by the court. No error is assigned as to the applicability of such instructions. “The objection defendant made to the allowance of exemplary damages and the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain it is only submitted in general terms. If the law of the case as given the jury by the court was not applicable, by failure to object or assign it as error, or submit instructions which defendant contends applicable, such matter has been waived. Where the evidence is conflicting, and where it may be said that if one theory of the case is correct there may be ground for the imposition of exemplary damages, the matter is properly submitted to the jury in order that it may be determined whether or not one theory is true or the other.” 74 Idaho at 189 , 259 P.2d at 812 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nielson v. Flashberg
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.