80 Md. App. 481 - Thorne v. Contee’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2019
2 federal appellate · 10 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 69 Md. App. 342 - Pahanish v. Western Trails, Inc. · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Barrack · Smith v. Gray Concrete Pipe Co. · Embrey v. Holly · Wedeman v. City Chevrolet Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for the issue of punitive damages to go to the jury, Thorne must have produced sufficient evidence of Contee's wanton or reckless conduct to meet the preponderance of the evidence test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We hold that there must be an award of some compensatory damages under the count wherein punitive damages are claimed before there can be an award of punitive damages thereunder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The tortious act of the servant done in the course of his employment is ordinarily the legal act of the master.”
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.