Simon v. Heald’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2004
1 district · 5 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Barr v. Matteo · 224 Pa. Super. 47 - Ammlung v. Platt · 8 Pa. Commw. 567 - DuBree v. Commonwealth · 370 F. Supp. 1373 - Johnson v. Anderson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In one sense, much of a police officer's conduct involved [sic] discretion. An officer must continuously choose between warnings and arrests. He must decide whether a minor problem should be passed up in order to concentrate on a more serious one. He must decide which vehicles to signal and what form of signal to give. Discretion is a constant factor in a police officer's day.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] police officer’s duties and his methods of carrying out these duties are routine procedures. * * * The acts of aiding a stranded motorist and signaling to passing traffic are not such executive level decisions that an officer is entitled to be protected from personal liability if he acts negligently.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The law of governmental immunity in Delaware as it applies to the State, the State’s agencies and its policy level officers is that there is no liability in tort for policy level decisions or discretionary actions done within the scope of official duty absent wanton or reckless conduct.”
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.