Svejcara v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Niziolek (1985), Tuttle v. Raymond (1985)
2 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Ashe v. Swenson · Waller v. Florida · United States v. Oppenheimer · Loucks v. Albuquerque National Bank · Bank of New Mexico v. Rice
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who drives any vehicle carelessly and heedlessly in willful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others and without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property, is guilty of reckless driving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valencia v. Dixon
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.