Splawn, Admx. v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Harkrider v. Cox (1959), Steward v. Thomas (1953)
7 federal appellate · 42 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 Froman v. J. R. Kelley Stave & Heading Co. · Ward v. George · Sorrell v. White · Hodges v. Smith · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Owings
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘To be willfully negligent, one must be conscious of his conduct, and, although having no intent to injure, must be conscious, from his knowledge of surrounding circumstances and existing conditions, that his conduct will naturally or probably result in injury.’. . . .‘Willful negligence means a failure to perform a manifest duty in reckless disregard of the consequences as affecting the life or property of another.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rone v. Miller“"* * * In McAllister, Administrator v. Calhoun, 212 Ark. 17 , 205 S.W.2d 40, 42 , we quoted with approval from Splawn, Administratrix v. Wright, 198 Ark. 197 , 128 S.W.2d 248 : `Whether an automobile is being operated in such a manner as to amount to wanton and willful conduct in disregard of the rights of others must be determined by the facts and circumstances of each individual case.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spence v. Vaught“This court has laid down the rule that in order to sustain a recovery under our Guest Statute, supra, the negligence must be of a greater degree than even gross negligence, that it must be willful or wanton.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rone v. Miller
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.