Decker v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
10 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Belanger v. Village Pub I, Inc. (1992), Mooney v. Wabrek (1942)
10 district · 60 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 Bordonaro v. Senk · Ziman v. Whitley · Menzie v. Kalmonowitz · State v. Campbell · Heslin v. Malone
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]ross negligence has never been recognized in this state as a separate basis of liability in the law of torts.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Wanton misconduct is more than negligence, more than gross negligence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““There is no evidence in the case from which the jury could have reasonably inferred that the conduct of [defendant] was such as to indicate a reckless disregard of the just rights or safety of others or of the consequences of action. On the contrary, the only reasonable inference which the jury could have drawn from the evidence was that [defendant] tried to avoid a collision.” 3 A.2d at 857 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. State
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.