Bullins v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Shaw v. Stroud (1994), 155 N.C. App. 462 - Toomer v. Garrett (2002)
4 federal appellate · 85 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 Kelly v. International Harvester Company · Hinson v. Dawson · Wagoner v. North Carolina Railroad · DeWald v. State · Goddard v. Williams
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wanton conduct done with conscious or reckless disregard for the rights and safety of others.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““This Court has established the standard of care where the conduct of an officer in the chase or apprehension of a law violator results in the officer’s vehicle colliding with another person, vehicle, or object. The officer is held to the standard of care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in the discharge of official duties of a like nature under like circumstances.... “... The last sentence of [N.C.Gen. Stat. § 20-145 (Supp.1987)] establishes as the public policy of North Carolina that if an officer’s conduct under the facts of this case is determined to be grossly negligent, then the statute does not protect him and he may be liable for damages proximately resulting from such gross negligence. “... Where the officer’s vehicle does not collide with another person, vehicle, or object under these conditions, the policy of the state is that liability cannot attach unless the officer’s conduct constitutes gross or wanton negligence.” 322 N.C. at 582-83 , 369 S.E.2d at 603 . (Emphasis in original; citations omitted). violators of the law or of persons charged with or suspected of any such violation.... This exemption shall not, however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequence of a reckless disregard of the safety of others." (Emphasis in original).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The pursued vehicle had out-of-state tags. The driver was unknown to the officers and was acting as if he was under the influence of alcohol. . . . The pursuit was in the early morning hours along a predominantly rural section of U.S. 220 where traffic was light and the road was dry. The officers continuously used their emergency lights and sirens, kept their vehicles under proper control, and did not collide with any person, vehicle, or object.”
2 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.