Cavey v. Bethlehem’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2013
23 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 King Et Al., Appellants, v. Brillhart · Anderson v. Wood, Appellant · Gilles v. Leas · Reilly v. Philadelphia · Robb v. Quaker City Cab 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The actor's conduct is in reckless disregard of the safety of another if he does an act or intentionally fails to do an act which it is his duty to the other to do, knowing or having reason to know of facts which would lead a reasonable man to realize, not only that his conduct creates an unreasonable risk of physical harm to another, but also that such risk is substantially greater than that which is necessary to make his conduct negligent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“What constitutes a reckless want of care on the part of the operator of a motor vehicle varies with the circumstances of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under all the circumstances [shows] a reckless disregard of the safety of others.”
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.