Baker v. Marcus

How courts have described this case

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• holding a driver’s conduct, which included drinking, taking her eyes off the road, and causing a rear-end collision, was simple negligence
• defendant’s conduct in taking her eyes off the road and failing to see plaintiff’s car constituted negligence and lack of ordinary care and caution, therefore question of punitive damages should not have been submitted to jury
• “One who knowingly drives his automobile on the highway under the influence of intoxicants, in violation of statute, is, of course, negligent. It is a wrong, reckless and unlawful thing to do; but it is not necessarily a malicious act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).