Wolfe v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · Cote v. Palmer · Leonard v. North Dakota Co-Operative Wool Marketing Ass'n · Henneman v. McCalla · 48 Wash. 2d 825 - French v. Chase
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To justify risking life or serious injury while rescuing another from danger, the peril which is threatened must be imminent and real, and not speculative or imaginary, and there must be more than a supposition that an accident to some person may follow if the rescue is not performed. [Citation omitted.]” Wolff v. Light, 169 N.W.2d 93, 99 (N.D.1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A summary judgment is based upon pleadings, depositions, admissions, affidavits, and interrogatories, and inferences to be drawn therefrom." [Emphasis ours.]”
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.