Karbel v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2018
3 district · 10 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 Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Otis Engineering Corp. v. Clark · Schear v. Board of County Commissioners · Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maez · Ramirez v. Armstrong
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common law also provides the source of a duty in such a situation based on actual control. The duty of one who takes charge of a third person whom he knows or should know to be likely to cause harm to others, if not controlled, is the duty to exercise reasonable care to prevent the person from doing harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“guards, in the exercise of their duties, undertook to remove Francis from campus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. JGE v. United States
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.