Coty v. Washoe County’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2022
2 district · 13 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 Irwin v. Town of Ware · Fudge v. City of Kansas City · 108 Wash. 2d 262 - Bailey v. Town of Forks · Perez v. Las Vegas Medical Center · Morgan v. District of Columbia
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abrogate the principal of common law that the duty of governmental entities to provide services is a duty owed to the public, not to individual persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“acting within the scope of official conduct, assumes a special duty by creating specific reliance on the part of certain individuals,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that a public officer must actively create a situation which leads directly to the damaging result.”
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.