599 So. 2d 586 - Smith v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2025
10 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 510 So. 2d 142 - Lynn Strickland Sales & Serv., Inc. v. AERO-LANE FAB., INC. · 546 So. 2d 371 - Central Alabama Elec. Co-Op. v. Tapley · Trahan v. Cook · Pate v. Sunset Funeral Home · Brown v. Turner
Most-quoted passages
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“'Wantonness' is not merely a higher degree of culpability than negligence. Negligence and wantonness, plainly and simply, are qualitatively different tort concepts of actionable culpability. Implicit in wanton, willful, or reckless misconduct is an acting, with knowledge of danger, or with consciousness, that the doing or not doing of some act will likely result in injury. . . .”
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.