Montoya v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Woodworker's Supply, Inc. v. Principal Mutual Life Insurance (1999), Folz v. State (1990)
6 federal appellate · 37 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 Urtz v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · State Ex Rel. Burg v. City of Albuquerque · Gould v. Cayuga County National Bank · Jackson v. Southwestern Public Service Company · Hall v. Stiles
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [Pjunitive damages are inflicted for the limited purpose of punishment and only when compensatory damages seem inadequate to satisfy the wrong committed. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweitzer v. Sanchez
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.