Weinberg v. Dinger’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 25 district · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 211 Ill. 2d 32 - Adams v. Northern Illinois Gas Co. (2004), Ayers v. Township of Jackson (1987)
8 federal appellate · 25 district · 131 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · German Alliance Insurance Company v. Home Water Supply Company · Rappaport v. Nichols · Goldberg v. Housing Auth. of City of Newark
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that wronged persons should be compensated for their injuries and that those responsible for the wrong should bear the cost of their tortious conduct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he question whether there is a `duty' merely begs the more fundamental question whether the plaintiff's interests are entitled to legal protection against the defendant's conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'more' being the value judgment, based on an analysis of public policy, that the actor owed the injured party a duty of reasonable care.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.