State v. S.V.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “While [courts] have attempted to draw definitional [distinctions] between the terms willful, wanton or reckless, in practice the three terms have been ti-eated as meaning the same thing.”
• “[w]e have previously used statutes as a useful source of policy for common law adjudication, particularly if there [is] a close relationship between the statutory and common law subject matters” [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).