352 So. 2d 1090 - Whaley v. Lawing’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1996
17 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 Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper · Kilcrease v. Harris · Lewis v. Zell · Blount Brothers Construction Company v. Rose · Crocker v. Lee
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'Wantonness has been defined as the conscious doing of some act or the omission of some duty [while] under knowledge of existing conditions and while conscious that, from the doing of such act or the omission of such duty, injury will likely or probably result, and before a party can be said to be guilty of wanton conduct it must be shown that with reckless indifference to the consequences he consciously and intentionally did some wrongful act or omitted some known duty which produced the result. Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper , 247 Ala. 616 , 25 So.2d 505 [(1946)]; Taylor v. Thompson , *Page 1350 271 Ala. 18 , 122 So.2d 277 [(1960)]; Johnson v. Sexton [ 277 Ala. 627 , 173 So.2d 790 ], supra.' "”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to constitute wantonness, a failure to act must be accompanied by knowledge that someone is probably imperilled, and the failure to act must be in reckless disregard of the consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“drawn under the party's direction or with his consent.”
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.