Kostiuk v. Queally’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Brown v. Town of Branford (1987), Sheiman v. Lafayette Bank & Trust Co. (1985)
2 district · 130 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 Dumond v. Denehy · Bordonaro v. Senk · Brock v. Waldron · Begley v. Kohl & Madden Printing Ink Co. · Ziman v. Whitley
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a wide difference between negligence and a reckless disregard of the rights or safety of others, and a complaint should employ language explicit enough to clearly inform the court and opposing counsel that reckless misconduct is relied on.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“Simply using the word `reckless' or `recklessness' is not enough.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]egligence and wilful and wanton misconduct are separate and distinct causes of action.”
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.