Stroud v. Lints’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. · Stenberg v. Carhart · Howe v. Richardson · Hibschman Pontiac, Inc. v. Batchelor
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.
“a reasonable trier of fact could find by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with malice, fraud, gross negligence or oppressiveness that was not the result of a mistake of fact or law, honest error of judgment, overzealousness, mere negligence, or other human failing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romine v. Gagle“evidence in the light most favorable to the appellee, together with all the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom.”
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.