Sutherland v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2017
6 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 Feore v. Trammel · 353 So. 2d 524 - Arnold v. State · Continental Casualty Co. v. Cunningham · 47 Ala. App. 352 - Parker v. Sutton · Porterfield v. Life Casualty Co. of Tennessee
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.
“"If the actor has intelligence enough to understand the physical nature and consequences of his act, and . . . consciously directs his action so that the injury of the [plaintiff] is the natural or probable consequence thereof, then that injury is the result of an intentional act."”
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.