McFarlin v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

98 state decisions

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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]s designed, in part at least, to protect the other from the hazard of being harmed by the intervening force, or by the effect of the intervening force operating on the condition created by the negligent conduct, then that hazard is within the duty, and the intervening force is not a superseding cause.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Delozier v. Evans · Rourk v. State

2. “It is sufficient if the jury could have found on the evidence that a reasonable person would have foreseen that the condition or presence of [the assailant] on the premises posed a threat of physical harm to the patrons or employees of the bar and would have taken action to prevent such harm.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sucanick v. Clayton

3. “[0]ne who operates a bar where the public is invited while not an insurer of the safety of his patrons, owes the duty to his patrons to exercise reasonable care and vigilance to protect them from reasonably foreseeable injury, mistreatment or annoyance at the hands of other patrons.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sucanick v. Clayton