Stene v. Hillgren

How courts have described this case

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• meager evidence of malice in assault and battery case resulted in reduction of punitive damage award
• all the circumstances, including parties’ characters and evidence of provocation, may be considered at the time of an assault

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Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Don M. Davis, as of the Estate of Ethlyn M. Davis, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-06-15· cited 73×
• Grynberg v. Citation Oil & Gas Corp.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-10-22· cited 71×
• Hannahs v. Noah
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1968-05-13· cited 71×
• Biegler v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-01-24· cited 58×
• Schaffer v. Edward D. Jones & Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-07-24· cited 54×
• Gifford v. Bowling
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1972-09-06· cited 31×
• Vreugdenhil v. First Bank of South Dakota, N.A.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1991-03-27· cited 20×
• Zahrowski v. Dahl
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1960-01-28· cited 13×
• Nicolay v. Stukel
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2017-07-26· cited 13×
• Shippen v. Parrott
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-08-28· cited 9×
• Smith v. Montana-Dakota Utilities
  D. South Dakota· 1983-12-07· cited 6×
• Byre v. Wieczorek
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1971-09-02· cited 3×
• Foley v. Horton
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1989-10-11· cited 2×
• Fiechtner v. American West Ins.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2025-11-05· cited 1×
• Shippen v. Parrot
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-08-28

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kunz v. Johnson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1953-02-14· cited 29×
• Bogue v. Gunderson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1912-10-01· cited 26×
• Baumgartner's Electric Construction Co. v. De Vries
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1958-07-21· cited 25×
• Stene v. Hillgren
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1958-02-20· cited 22×