Cooper v. Calico’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Harkrider v. Cox (1959), Steward v. Thomas (1953)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Roberson v. Roberson · Froman v. J. R. Kelley Stave & Heading Co. · Splawn, Admx. v. Wright · Ward v. George · Edwards v. Jeffers
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o be wilfully negligent one must be conscious of his conduct — that is, he must, in light of surrounding circumstances, comprehend that his act will naturally or probably result in injury. Cooper, at 857-858.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No one could successfully deny that his conduct was careless. Certainly he was negligent in not stopping and looking in each direction before placing his Chevrolet and his passengers in a position of peril. But even gross negligence, under the Guest Statutes, is not enough. There must be a willfulness, a wantonness, an indifferent abandonment in respect of consequences, applicable alike to self and guests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spence v. Vaught
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.