Zdarzynski v. Wegner’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.2d 899 · 1937
Citation profile
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
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.
“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 majoritye.g. Iddings v. Mee-Lee“[t]he word `reckless' has a wide range of meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Iddings v. Mee-Lee
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.