Saba v. Darling’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Scott v. Jenkins (1997), Nelson v. Carroll (1999)
8 district · 20 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 McKenna v. Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft · Nast v. Lockett · Johnson v. Mountaire Farms of Delmarva, Inc. · 72 Md. App. 487 - Saba v. Darling · 49 Wis. 2d 150 - Landrey v. United Services Automobile Ass'n
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Despite the host of conflicting stories in the record before us, we do know that on June 16, 1984, Charles Darling intentionally hit Markus Saba causing injury to his jaw. Such an event is the sine qua non of an intentional tort. A battery has been defined as a harmful or offensive contact with a person resulting from an act intended to cause the person such contact. See Restatement (Second) of Torts, § 13. The act in question must be some positive or affirmative action on the part of the defendant. Prosser & Keeton, The Law of Torts, § 9 (5th ed.1984). The facts of the instant case as set forth above illustrate that each element of this definition has been met. Although Darling testified that he did not intend to break Saba’s jaw, obviously he intended to strike Saba and the severity of the injury is of no consequence in an analysis of Darling’s state of mind.””
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.