Bennett v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 33rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell · Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. · City of Keller v. Wilson · Cain v. Bain
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) a specific intent by the defendant to cause substantial injury to the claimant; or (B) an act or omission; (i) which when viewed objectively from the standpoint of the actor at the time of its occurrence involves an extreme degree of risk, considering the probability and magnitude of the potential harm to others; and (ii) of which the actor has actual, subjective awareness of the risk involved, but nevertheless proceeds with conscious indifference to the rights, safety, or welfare of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. Reynolds
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.