Baker v. Kroger Co.’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 1172 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2012
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Stafford v. Oklahoma · Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc. · 172 W. Va. 435 - Ilosky v. Michelin Tire Corp. · 171 W. Va. 97 - Wells v. Smith · Jordan v. Bero
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the amount of actual damages may be one of the criteria which a jury can consider in assessing punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there does not have to be a reasonable relationship between compensatory and punitive damages”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.