Bartolucci v. Falleti’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Clarke v. Storchak (1943), 33 Ill. 2d 481 - Klatt v. Commonwealth Edison Co. (1965)
19 federal appellate · 101 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 Streeter v. Humrichouse · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hamler · Pollard v. Broadway Central Hotel Corp. · Sycamore Preserve Works v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Balsewicz v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““HI will is not a necessary element of a wanton [willful] act. To constitute a wanton act the party doing the act or failing to act must be conscious of his conduct, and, though having no intent to injure, must be conscious, from his knowledge of surrounding circumstances and existing conditions, that his conduct will naturally and probably result in injury. An intentional disregard of a known duty necessary to the safety of the person or property of another, and an entire absence of care for the life, person, or property of others, such as exhibits a conscious indifference to consequences, makes a case of constructive or legal willfulness, such as charges the person whose duty it was to exercise care with the consequences of a willful injury.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.