Shoemaker v. Floor’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1971
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Hughes v. Hudelson · Dawson v. Salt Lake Hardware Co. · Shepard v. Payne · Stallinger v. Johnson · Willi v. Schaefer Hitchcock 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘reckless’, as used in this statute (Sec. 48-901, I.C.A., as amended by chap. 160 of the ’39 Sess.Laws), is, in my opinion, not used as synonymous with ‘conscious indifference’, ‘wilful disregard’, or ‘wanton disregard’ of the rights of a guest. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.