Surgan v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1970
11 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 Rester v. Moody & Stewart · Roberson v. Roberson · Shaw, Admr. v. Moore · Succession of Marinoni · Rush v. Landers
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Webster's New International Dictionary contains this definition of the word: `Self-determined; voluntary; intentional; as willful murder. Governed by will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; as, a willful man or horse.' "Webster also defines misconduct as wrong or improper conduct; bad behavior; unlawful behavior or conduct; malfeasance. Therefore, combining the two definitions, willful misconduct means wrong or improper or unlawful conduct motivated by a premeditated, obstinate, or intentional purpose, as contradistinguished from mere indifference, heedlessness, or carelessness. This definition gives to the words `their most usual significance,' and meets the requirements of article 14 of the Revised Civil Code. Rester v. Moody & Stewart, 172 La. 510 , 134 So. 690 ."”
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.