Sandler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Levesque (2002), Gray v. Giroux (2000)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 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 Mounsey v. Ellard · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. Gallison · Manning v. Nobile
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The actor’s conduct is in reckless disregard of the safety of another if he does an act or intentionally fails to do an act which it is his duty to the other to do, knowing or having reason to know of facts which would lead a reasonable man to realize, not only that his conduct creates an unreasonable risk of physical harm to another, but also that such risk is substantially greater than that which is necessary to make his conduct negligent.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The risk of death or grave bodily injury must be known or reasonably apparent, and the harm must be a probable consequence of the defendant's election to run that risk or of his failure reasonably to recognize it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Liability in tort for reckless disregard of safety is defined, on the other hand, in Restatement (Second) of Torts § 500 (1965), as including either an objective or a subjective element of knowledge of the risk”
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.