Hilbert v. Roth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “the right to punitive damages is a mere incident to a cause of action ... and not the subject of an action in itself’
• punitive damages are incident to underlying cause of action, not the subject of the action itself
• \The right to punitive damages is a mere incident to a cause of action ... and not the subject of an action in itself.\
• no award for punitive damages may be made where actual damage has not been suffered
• punitive damages are incident to underlying cause of action, not the subject of the action itself
• punitive damages may not be awarded where plaintiff is precluded from recovering compensatory damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).