Bull v. McCuskey’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina (1987), Mozzochi v. Beck (1987)
3 federal appellate · 10 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens · Miller v. Schnitzer · Nevada Credit Rating Bureau, Inc. v. Williams · Clark v. Clark · Caple v. Raynel Campers, Inc.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Heretofore, we have recognized the subjective nature of punitive damages [citation omitted] and the absence of workable standards by which to evaluate the propriety of such an award. Accordingly, we have allowed that determination to rest with the discretion of the trier of the fact [citation omitted] unless the evidence introduced at trial shows that the amount awarded by the jury would financially destroy or annihilate the defendant [citation omitted] in which event we would attempt an appropriate adjustment of the award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An attorney at law is absolutely privileged to publish defamatory matter concerning another in communications preliminary to a proposed judicial proceeding, or in the institution of, or during the course and as a part of, a judicial proceeding in which he participates as counsel, if it has some relation to the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Clark“[Defendant's] offer to settle the case for the minimal sum of $750 when considered in the light of his failure adequately to investigate before deciding to file suit and the total absence of essential expert evidence supports such a conclusion by the jury and we may not set it aside.”
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.