Saylor v. Valles’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Valles v. Silverman (2003), Mountain Highlands, LLC v. Hendricks (2010)
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 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 Lee v. Lee · Matter of Adoption of Doe · Schmitz v. Smentowski · DeVaney v. Thriftway Marketing Corp. · Las Luminarias of the New Mexico Council of the Blind v. Isengard
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.
“Plaintiffs bear a heavy burden of proving actual intent to injure, an intent that is quite distinct from an intent to commit an act that naturally and foreseeably results in injury.”
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.