Zerr v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2016
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1920
Relies on Gibbs v. Buck · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. · Wheeler v. Hurdman · Trinity Broadcasting of Denver, Inc. v. City of Westminster
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Willful and wanton conduct is 'conduct purposefully committed which the actor must have realized as dangerous, done heedlessly and recklessly, without regard to consequences, or of the rights and safety of others, particularly the plaintiff.' " Zerr I, 894 F. Supp at 376 (citing Moody v. Ungerer, 885 P.2d 200, 204 (Colo.1994)) (approving such an application). The district court then noted that "[t]he facts upon which [Zerr] bases her assertion of 'willfulness and wantonness' (if any) are precisely the same as those upon which she bases her claim for defamation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zerr v. Johnson“no public employee shall be liable for injuries arising out of an act ... occurring during the performance of his duties and within the scope of his employment, unless such act ... was willful and wanton, except as provided in this article.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zerr v. Johnson“[d]eliberateness or recklessness is a necessary element of a claim for defamation under Colorado law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zerr v. Johnson
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.