General Motors Corp. v. Johnston

How courts have described this case

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

• $15 million punitive-damages award in products liability action for the wrongful death of a minor was remitted to $7.5 million
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting 251 reports of similar occurrences of engine stalling and idling
• after remittitur, upholding a $7.5 million award in an AEMLD case in which General Motors had defectively designed its 1988 Chevrolet 2500 series pickup truck and had failed to inform its customers about the tendency of the truck to stall
• examining punitive-damage awards in wrongful death cases in other jurisdictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-05-14· cited 138×
• Sears, Roebuck and Co. v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1994-01-07· cited 69×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-05-27· cited 58×
• Lance, Inc. v. Ramanauskas
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1999-03-05· cited 35×
• Lemond Const. Co. v. Wheeler
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1995-09-29· cited 30×
• Williston v. Ard
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-11-20· cited 29×
• Life Ins. Co. of Georgia v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1996-04-26· cited 28×
• Verchot v. General Motors Corp.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2001-05-25· cited 26×
• Cherokee Elec. Co-Op. v. Cochran
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1997-12-12· cited 24×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-01-13· cited 23×
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Wasiak
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-04-17· cited 17×
• Pileri Indus., Inc. v. Consolidated Indus., Inc.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1999-09-10· cited 16×
• Crowne Investments, Inc. v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1999-08-06· cited 16×
• Ex Parte Williamson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2005-01-14· cited 14×
• Baldwin County Elec. Membership Corp. v. City of Fairhope
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2008-06-13· cited 14×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-09-30· cited 13×
• McKowan v. Bentley
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1999-08-27· cited 12×
• Taylor v. General Motors Corp.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1997-10-31· cited 10×
• Smiley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-08-13· cited 10×
• Mazda Motor Corp. v. Hurst
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2017-07-07· cited 9×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip
  Supreme Court· 1991-03-04· cited 1,406×
• Hammond v. City of Gadsden
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1986-07-11· cited 414×
• Green Oil Co. v. Hornsby
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-01-13· cited 337×
• Hasson v. Ford Motor Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1982-09-16· cited 240×
• Menard-Sanford v. A.H. Robins Co.
  Supreme Court· 1989-11-06· cited 206×
• Diana L. Mason, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Otis W. Mason, Deceased v. Texaco, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-11-18· cited 188×
• Central Alabama Elec. Co-Op. v. Tapley
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-05-12· cited 136×
• Ford Motor Co. v. Stubblefield
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-13· cited 93×
• Black Belt Wood Co., Inc. v. Sessions
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-06-30· cited 82×
• INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL AND FIBERGLASS CORP. v. Chandler
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-01-16· cited 71×
• Alabama Power Co. v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-01-11· cited 63×
• R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. v. Prevost
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-01· cited 62×
• Burlington Northern R. Co. v. Whitt
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-09-21· cited 54×
• City Bank of Alabama v. Eskridge
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1988-02-05· cited 41×
• Olympia Spa v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-05-12· cited 38×
• Wilson v. Dukona Corp., N.V.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-04-28· cited 37×
• Green v. Standard Fire Ins. Co. of Alabama
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-04-24· cited 33×
• Bucyrus-Erie Co. v. Von Haden
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1982-05-21· cited 31×
• Alabama Power Co. v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-09-20· cited 24×
• Davis v. Southland Corp.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-02-08· cited 22×