Chavez-Rey v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Kelly Inn No. 102, Inc. v. Kapnison (1992), Coates v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1999)
50 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 Transwestern Pipe Line Company v. Yandell · Sierra Blanca Sales Co., Inc. v. Newco Industries, Inc. · Wagner Land and Investment Co. v. Halderman · Scofield v. JW Jones Construction Company · Sanchez v. Gomez
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party prays for an award of punitive damages and the evidence is sufficient to permit the issue of punitive damages to be considered by the jury, the amount of such damages is left to the sound discretion of the jury based on the nature of the wrong, the circumstances of each case, and any aggravating or mitigating circumstances as may be shown.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The amount of [the] award of punitive damages [was not] so unrelated to the injury and actual damages proven as to plainly manifest passion and prejudice rather than reason or justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining whether a jury verdict is excessive, the court does not weigh the evidence but determines the excessiveness as a matter of law.”
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.