Savage v. Van Marle’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 31 Cal. 2d 586 - Vaughn v. Jonas · Hayes v. Richfield Oil Corp. · Fuentes v. Tucker · 18 Cal. 2d 863 - Donnelly v. Southern Pacific Co. · Mercer - Fraser Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]illful misconduct implies the intentional doing of something either with knowledge, express or implied, that serious injury is a probable, as distinguished from a possible, result, or the intentional doing of an act with a wanton and reckless disregard of its consequences.”
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.