McCarthy v. J. P. Cullen & Son Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding a judgment of punitive damages turns “more or less” on acts peculiar to each case, “rests largely in discretion of the jury,” and must be reasonably related to actual damages, but rejecting a numeric formula
• examining architects’ duties with respect to plans and specifications and noting duty extended to protection of owners of adjacent properties from harms “which reasonably could be expected to flow from” the plans
• examining architects’ duties with respect to plans and specifications and noting duty extended to protection of owners of adjacent properties from harms “which reasonably could be expected to flow from” the plans
• “amount of punitive damages must generally be proportionate to the actual damages”
• expressly rejecting the use of a mathematical ratio in examining punitive damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).