Sharp v. Robberson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Alack v. Vic Tanny International of Missouri, Inc. (1996), Racer v. Utterman (1981)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company v. Apms et al. · Romie v. Casanova · Nichols v. Bresnahan · McClanahan Ex Rel. McClanahan v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Lampert v. Judge & Dolph Drug Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ct[s] or fails to do an act which it is [the actor’s] duty to the other to do, knowing or having reason to know of facts which would lead a reasonable man to realize that the actor’s conduct not only creates an unreasonable risk of ... harm to the other but also involves a high degree of probability that substantial harm will result to [the other.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“complete indifference to or conscious disregard for the safety of others”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because negligence, a mere omission of the duty to exercise care, is the antithesis of willful or intentional conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koon v. Walden · Fulmer v. Rider
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.