Britt v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty · Pleasant v. Johnson · Jones v. Satterfield Development Co. · 39 N.C. App. 183 - Siders v. Gibbs · 121 N.C. App. 185 - Russ v. Great American Insurance Companies
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Willful negligence arises from the tort-feasor’s willful breach of a duty arising by operation of law. The tort-feasor must have a deliberate purpose not to discharge a legal duty necessary to the safety of the person or property of another. This willful and deliberate purpose not to discharge a duty differs crucially for our purposes from the willful and deliberate purpose to inflict injury — the latter amounting to an intentional tort.”
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.