Hannahs v. Noah’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Smith v. Wade (1983), Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc. (1976)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 59 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 Borden v. General Insurance Co. of America · Baltimore American Ins. v. Pecos Mercantile Co. · Scalise v. National Utility Service, Inc. · Baumgartner's Electric Construction Co. v. De Vries · Stene v. Hillgren
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, where the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice, actual or presumed, ... the jury, in addition to the actual damage, may give damages for the sake of example, and by way of punishing the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[Ejxemplary damages are recoverable in all actions for damages based upon tor-tious acts which involve circumstances or ingredients, of malice, fraud, or insult, or a wanton and reckless disregard of the rights of the plaintiff.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“conceived in the spirit of mischief or of criminal indifference to civil obligations”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dahl v. Sittner · Till v. Bennett
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.