Grad v. Kaasa’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 194 N.C. App. 1 - Strickland v. Hedrick (2008), Evans v. Chalmers (2012)
8 federal appellate · 53 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 Lowe v. Bradford · Smith v. State · State v. Mitchell · Givens v. Sellars · State v. Brown
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant acts with malice when he wantonly does that which a man of reasonable intelligence would know to be contrary to his duty and which he intends to be prejudicial or injurious to another.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“An act is wanton when it is done of wicked purpose, or when done needlessly, manifesting a reckless indifference to the rights of others.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that [the defendant] is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
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.