Smith v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
September 1997
most recently cited
2 district ·
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) negligence accompanied by the actor’s conscious indifference to the rights of others, or (2) negligence which is increased in magnitude by the actor’s reckless disregard of the rights of others. [The court] find[s] not simply an inadvertent breach of duty or impudent conduct (as is ordinary negligence), but [that] the violation of the duty to others is so flagrant as to evidence an indifference to or reckless disregard of the rights of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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