Law v. Gallegher’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
8 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper (1946), McHugh v. Brown (1956)
8 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Searles v. . Manhattan Railway Company · Gallegher v. Davis · Critzer Et Ux. v. Donovan · Smith v. First National Bank
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * in strictly accurate use the terms ‘wilful’ and ‘wanton’ are clearly distinguishable, in that wilfulness includes the element of actual intent to inflict injury, while in wantonness there is an implied or constructive intent.””
1 later decision 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.