Booth v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Bulala v. Boyd (1990), Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Watson (1992)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 99 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 Baker v. Marcus · Essex v. Commonwealth · King v. Commonwealth · Wood v. American National Bank · Eubank v. Spencer
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so willful or wanton as to evince a conscious disregard of the rights of others.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The objective fact that the defendant in the case voluntarily consumed enough intoxicants to produce a reading of 0.22% blood alcohol content, causing him to drive as he did on the night in question, provides sufficient proof of his conscious disregard of the rights of others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such recklessness or negligence as evinces a conscious disregard of the rights of others.”
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.