Baldwin v. McConnell

How courts have described this case

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• noting the punitive damage award approved in Poulston was two and one-half times the compensatory award
• “Setting aside a verdict as excessive . . . is an exercise of the inherent discretion of the trial court. . . (quoting Shepard v. Capitol Foundry of Va., Inc., 262 Va. 715, 721, 554 S.E.2d 72, 75 (2001))
• “[A] reviewing court must consider the reasonableness of punitive damages on a case-by-case basis, considering the relevant circumstances in each particular case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).