McClure v. Walgreen Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Pinter v. Dahl · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · Mississippi v. Turner · 1993-1 v. Petruzzi's Iga Supermarkets Inc
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he actor has intentionally done an act of unreasonable character in disregard of a known or obvious risk that was so great as to make it highly probable that harm would follow, and which thus is usually accompanied by a conscious indifference to the consequences.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Whether, by a preponderance of clear, convincing, and satisfactory evidence, the conduct of the defendant from which the claim arose constituted willful and wanton disregard for the rights or safety of another. (b) Whether the conduct of the defendant was directed specifically at the claimant, or at the person from which the claimant's claim is derived.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Legal malice is shown by wrongful conduct committed or continued with a willful or reckless disregard for another's rights.”
3 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.