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88 F.2d 899 · 1937

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
4
states following
March 1997
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1997

1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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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 Tinker v. Colwell · Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Crocker · Peters v. United States ex rel. Kelley · Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Tartt · Buck v. Alex

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “operat[ing][an] automobile upon [a] public highway in a wanton and reckless manner and with an utter disregard for the safety of others ..., and under circumstances likely to cause great bodily injury”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[t]he word `reckless' has a wide range of meaning.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.