Eatley v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1995
17 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 Hintz v. Roberts · Staub v. Public Service Railway Co. · Haines v. Schultz · Dreimuller v. Rogow · Rose v. Squires
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gross negligence does not support a charge for punitive damages, while a charge of willful and wanton disregard does support such a charge. The test is the intent with which the act is committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“negligently, unskillfully, carelessly and with a wanton disregard for plaintiff's health and physical condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.