Downs v. Garay’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Weidler v. Big J Enterprises, Inc. (1997), Anna Nieto Betty Delosantos Patrick Sanchez Sally Netsch Phyllis Debaun Mary Gonzales v. Quadrat Kapoor (2001)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Thomas v. United States · Sanchez v. Homestake Mining Co. · State v. Deltenre · Commonwealth v. Corley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is permissible upon a finding that the wrongdoer's conduct was willful, wanton, malicious, reckless, oppressive, grossly negligent, or fraudulent and in bad faith.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.