283 Pa. Super. 116 - Smith v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 318 Pa. Super. 90 - Delahanty v. First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A. (1984), 413 Pa. Super. 128 - McClellan v. Health Maintenance Organization (1992)
87 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 Evans v. Philadelphia Transportation Co. · 217 Pa. Super. 35 - Focht v. Rabada · 229 Pa. Super. 333 - BAKER v. RANGOS · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Barbera · 251 Pa. Super. 184 - Di Sante v. Russ Financial Co.
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Reckless indifference to the interests of others,’ or as it is sometimes referred to, ‘wanton misconduct,’ means that ‘the actor has intentionally done an act of an unreasonable character, in disregard of a risk known to him or so obvious that he must be taken to have been aware of it, and so great as to make it highly probable that harm would follow.’ ” Smith, supra at 120 , 423 A.2d at 745 .”
9 later decisions 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.