Grover v. Stechel’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
20 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles v. Carneyhan (2005), Johnstone v. City of Albuquerque (2006)
20 district · 14 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 Schmitz v. Smentowski · Davis v. Board of County Commissioners · Padwa v. Hadley · Rael v. Cadena · Johnson Ex Rel. Estate of Johnson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, an individual has no duty to protect another from harm caused by the criminal acts of third persons unless the person has a special relationship with the other giving rise to a duty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to create a duty based on a special relationship, the relationship must include the right or ability to control another's conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ertain relationships, however, that give rise to such a duty [include]: (1) those involving common carriers, innkeepers, possessors of land; and (2) those who voluntarily or by legal mandate take the custody of another so as to deprive the other of his normal opportunities for protection.”
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.