LeCompte v. Wardell’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1988
4 federal appellate · 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 Mellon v. Kelly · Montague v. Hanson · McGlone v. William Angus, Inc. · Chichas v. Foley Bros. Grocery Co. · Kniffen v. Hercules Powder 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's act is properly characterized as willful, wanton, or reckless ... only when it was apparent, or reasonably should have been apparent, to the defendant that the result was likely to prove disastrous to the [injured party], and he acted with such indifference toward, or utter disregard of, such a consequence that it can be said he was willing to perpetrate it.”
2 later decisions 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.