Smith v. Roland’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Ikner Lee v. Ikner (1989), 510 So. 2d 142 - Lynn Strickland Sales & Serv., Inc. v. AERO-LANE FAB., INC. (1987)
4 federal appellate · 26 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 Chapman v. Nelson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Gross negligence' is negligence, not wantonness. Before one can be convicted of wantonness, the facts must show that he was conscious of his conduct and conscious from his knowledge of existing conditions that injury would likely or probably result from his conduct, that with reckless indifference to consequences, he consciously and intentionally did some wrongful act or omitted some known duty which produced the injury."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“This evidence at best shows simple negligence. It does not warrant an inference of wanton conduct. The court therefore erred in refusing the affirmative charge. * * * ( 243 Ala. at 403 , 10 So.2d at 369 .)”
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.