Fielder v. Stonack’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably G.S. v. Department of Human Services (1999), Collins v. Union County Jail (1997)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 84 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 Daniels v. Williams · Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield · Komen v. Robbins · Neshewat v. Hagstrom · Travis v. City of Mesquite
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for: ... any injury caused by ... an escaping or escaped person[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]illful misconduct is ordinarily limited to a knowing violation of a specific command by a superior, or a standing order, that would subject that officer to discipline.... More particularly, willful misconduct in a police vehicular chase has two elements: 1) disobeying either a specific lawful command of a superior or a specific lawful standing order and 2) knowing of the command or standing order, knowing that it is being violated and, intending to violate it. Where the command or order is not only specific but clearly has no exceptions expressed or implied willful misconduct is not affected by the good faith of the public employee who believes he or she somehow had a right to knowingly and willfully disobey. (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[n]othing in this act shall exonerate a public employee from liability if it is established that his conduct . . . constituted . . . actual malice or willful misconduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.