Dobelle v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that “interest analysis” applies when determining which state’s punitive damages regime should govern
• finding accident fortuitous when likelihood of it occurring elsewhere was just as great as it occurring where it did
• finding Pennsylvania to be “the place where the conduct causing the injury occurred” because the corporate decisions and actions prompting the accident occurred there
• “the interest of plaintiff's domicile has little relevance since punitive damages are designed to punish a defendant, not to compensate a plaintiff”
• “[T]he interest of plaintiff’s domicile has little relevance since punitive damages are designed to punish a defendant, not to compensate a plaintiff.”
• “The interest of the plaintiffs domicile has little relevance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).