Rivard v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Mellin v. Flood Brook Union School District (2001), Braun v. Board of Dental Examiners (1997)
6 district · 26 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 Dashnow v. Myers · Conway v. O'Brien · Shaw, Admr. v. Moore · Wiggins v. State, Use of Collins · Laferriere v. Saliba
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`indifference to the duty owed [to another].'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“decided cases are of little assistance in determining the existence of gross negligence under the evidence in a particular case. Each case turns almost entirely on its own peculiar factual situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Koch“where the minds of reasonable persons cannot differ.”
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.