Klopp v. Wackenhut Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 171 Ill. 2d 435 - Bucheleres v. Chicago Park District (1996), Herrera Ex Rel. Estate of Ruiz v. Quality Pontiac (2003)
6 district · 80 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 Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Path-Science Laboratories, Inc. v. Greene County Hospital · Scott v. Rizzo
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] potential plaintiff must be reasonably foreseeable to the defendant because of defendant's actions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n a place of public accommodation, an occupier of the premises owes a duty to [exercise reasonable precautions to] safeguard each business visitor whom the occupier reasonably may foresee could be injured....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“owes a business visitor the duty to use ordinary care to keep the premises safe for use by the business visitor [or invitee].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.