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← 124 Vt. 32 - Rivard v. Roy

Rivard v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis

1963

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
August 2014
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “`indifference to the duty owed [to another].'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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 passage
  3. “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.