Bedwell v. Debolt’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Sidle v. Majors (1976), Kennedy v. Dixon (1969)
13 federal appellate · 122 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 Bernier v. Illinois Central Railroad · Jeneary v. Chicago & Interurban Traction Co. · 96 Ind. App. 287 - Coconower v. Stoddard · Baines v. Collins · 90 Ind. App. 227 - Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. Rushton
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining what constitutes a ‘wilful’ or ‘wanton’ act, we subscribe to the view that it is not necessary to prove that defendant deliberately intended to injure the plaintiff; it being sufficient if it is shown that, indifferent to consequences, the defendant intentionally acted in such a way that the natural and probable consequences of his act was injury to the plaintiff.””
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[I]t is equally well settled that a covenant not to sue one tort-feasor does not bar an action against the others, but only operates as a satisfaction of the damages, pro tanto, as to the benefits received. * * * And it may be added that under an answer of full satisfaction by a joint tort-feasor a defendant is entitled to a pro tanto credit for anything less than full payment which the plaintiff has received from that source. Whether the payment was in full or partial is for the jury to determine from the evidence. " (Emphasis supplied.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . ‘the plaintiff . . . elected to file a claim against the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad for the injuries sustained by her in said collision, . . .; that the plaintiff fixed and determined the extent and value of the injuries sustained by her and the same was paid in full by the . . . Railroad Company and a receipt and release was executed by the plaintiff to the said . . . Railroad Company therefor.’ ””
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.