Hockensmith v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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

1. “A person is reckless, willful, and wanton when he or she makes a conscious choice to act, either with knowledge of the serious danger to others involved or with knowledge of the facts, which would disclose the danger to any reasonable person. Prior to acting, the person must recognize that his or her conduct involves a risk substantially greater in amount than that which is necessary to make the conduct merely negligent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hallquist v. Midden

2. “The theories of negligence and intentional tort are contradictory and mutually exclusive.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. BP Chemicals Ltd. v. Jiangsu Sopo Corp.