Rogers v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Burt v. Lochausen (1952), Fancher v. Cadwell (1958)
2 federal appellate · 59 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 Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company v. Apms et al. · Bennett v. Howard · Romie v. Casanova · Rowan v. Allen · London Terrace, Inc. v. McAlister
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * it is now the settled law of this state that momentary thoughtlessness, inadvertence, or error of judgment do not constitute `heedlessness or reckless disregard of the rights of others' within the meaning of this statute; there must be something in the nature of a continued or persistent course of action; such acts as to constitute wanton misconduct or gross negligence."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harbin v. Seale · Bryant v. Adair“* * * accident shall have been intentional on the part of said owner or operator, or caused by his heedlessness or his reckless disregard of the rights of others”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“heedless and reckless disregard for the rights of others”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schafer v. Stevens
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.