Dudley v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1998
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Bohlken · Johnson v. Interstate Power Co. · Valadez v. City of Des Moines · Craven v. Oggero · Swanson v. McGraw
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a knowledge of the peril to be apprehended; (2) knowledge that injury is a probable, as opposed to a possible, result of the danger; and (3) a conscious failure to avoid the peril.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Similar to willful or reckless conduct, "wanton" conduct lies somewhere between the mere unreasonable risk of harm in ordinary negligence and intent to harm.... "The usual meaning assigned to `willful,' `wanton,' or `reckless,' according to taste as the word used, is that the actor has intentionally done an act of an unreasonable character in disregard of a risk known to or so obvious that he must be taken to be aware of it, and so great as to make it highly probable that harm would follow."”
2 later decisions 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.