Clark v. Hasselquist’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1990
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Streeter v. Humrichouse · 147 Ill. App. 33 - Wiersema v. Lockwood & Strickland Co. · O'Connell v. Dazey · Briggs v. Golden Cream Dairy, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * # * it is true as counsel for appellee argue that they had a right to show by questions on cross examination any and all interest of Buckley in the case which might affect the weight and credit to be given his testimony and that it is proper to show the relationship which exists between a witness and the parties to the suit, but here after Buckley had testified that he was investigating this ease for appellant and his attorneys, counsel for appellee assumed he was investigating the case for some other party not a party to this record and his answer disclosed that other party to be an insurance company. In our opinion this examination by counsel, when considered in connection with their argument to the jury, was for no other purpose than to disclose to the jury that the Travelers Insurance Company was the insurance carrier and the trial court erred in permitting counsel to pursue their inquiries after Buckley had stated that he was investigating this case for appellant and his counsel of record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cotter v. McKinney““To constitute an act wanton, the party doing the act or failing to act must be conscious of his conduct, and, though having no intent to injure, must he conscious, from his knowledge of the surrounding circumstances and conditions, that his conduct will naturally and probably result in injury. An intentional disregard of a known duty necessary to the safety of the person or property of another, and an entire absence of care for the life, person or property of others, such as exhibits a conscious indifference to consequences, makes a case of constructive or legal wilfulness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawson v. Fisk
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.