Sweitzer v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Sierra Blanca Sales Co., Inc. v. Newco Industries, Inc. (1972), Schrib v. Seidenberg (1969)
55 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 Loucks v. Albuquerque National Bank · Bank of New Mexico v. Rice · State v. Romero · Colbert v. Journal Publishing Co. · Industrial Supply Company v. Goen
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, substantially supports the award and (2) whether there is an indication of passion, prejudice, partiality, sympathy, undue influence or a mistaken measure of damages on the part of the fact finder.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Here, the amount of the exemplary damages is left to the ‘sound discretion’ of the. trial court as the fact finder. This amount is to be based on the circumstances of the case, that is, the ■ enormity of the offense, * * * the nature of the wrong committed and such aggravating circumstances as may be shown. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * the amount of punitive damages must be left to the jury’s sound discretion based on the circumstances of each individual case, but must not be so unrelated to the injury and actual damages proven as to plainly manifest passion and prejudice rather than reason and justice * *”
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.