Bordonaro v. Senk’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
8 district · 155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Dubay v. Irish (1988), Brown v. Town of Branford (1987)
8 district · 155 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Silver v. Silver · Menzie v. Kalmonowitz · Gonier v. Chase Companies, Inc. · Nehring v. Connecticut Co. · Budaj v. Connecticut Co.
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Act or conduct in reckless disregard of the rights of others is improper or wrongful conduct and constitutes wanton misconduct, evincing a reckless indifference to consequences to the life, or limb, or health, or reputation or property rights of another.” (Bordonaro v. Senk, 109 Conn. 428, 431 .) “ Conduct arising from momentary thoughtlessness, inadvertence or from an error of judgment, does not indicate a reckless disregard of the rights of others.” (Ascher v. Friedman, Inc., 110 Conn. 1, 4 .) To the same effect, Anderson v. Colucci ( 116 Conn. 67 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ No person transported by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle as his guest without payment for such transportation shall have a cause of action for damages against such owner or operator for injury, death or loss, in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been intentional on the part of such owner or operator or caused by his heedlessness or his reckless disregard of the rights of others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Metcalf v. Reynolds“in their resultant they are alike in their seriousness and gravity, and the law subjects whoever is guilty of either form of misconduct to like rules and visits upon each a like liability.”
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.