Galindo v. Western States Collection Company’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably 359 So. 2d 430 - Wackenhut Corp. v. Canty (1978), Romero v. Mervyn's (1989)
2 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 Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · Loucks v. Albuquerque National Bank · Bank of New Mexico v. Rice · Ryan v. Scoggin · Stewart v. Potter
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * 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“the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse. This means that the defendant not only intended to do the act which is ascertained to be wrongful, but that he knew it was wrong when he did it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romero v. Mervyn's“little, if any, aggravating circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. Coffman
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.