Buckner v. Varner’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2018
4 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 Evco Corporation v. Ross · Fowler v. Happy Goodman Family · Moss v. Fortune · Brookins v. the Round Table, Inc. · Taylor v. Nashville Banner Publishing 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff ... failed to show in her response there is 'genuine issue for trial,' " on the issue of gross negligence. Id. The plaintiff's affidavits failed to establish either that the "Defendant consciously or knowingly supplied Plaintiff with defective equipment or an ill-tempered horse”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Menuskin v. Williams“a conscious neglect of duty or a callous indifference to consequences .... [or] such entire want of care as would raise a presumption of a conscious indifference to consequences,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Menuskin v. Williams“where genuine issues exist regarding whether certain actions or conduct amount to gross negligence, summary judgment is inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Menuskin v. Williams
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.