Griffin v. Shively’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson (1988), Essex v. Commonwealth (1984)
12 federal appellate · 92 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 Schneiderman v. Interstate Transit Lines, Inc. · Ferguson v. Ferguson · Thomas v. Snow · Perlin v. Chappell · Meeks v. Hodges
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Willful and wanton negligence is acting consciously in disregard of another person's rights or acting with reckless indifference to the consequences, with the defendant aware, from his knowledge of existing circumstances and conditions, that his conduct probably would cause injury to another.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ordinary or simple negligence as the failure to use `that degree of care which an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under the same or similar circumstances to avoid injury to another.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Willful or wanton negligence involves a greater degree of negligence than gross negligence, particularly in the sense that in the former an actual or constructive consciousness of the danger involved is an essential ingredient of the act or omission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.