Cooke v. Berlin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably 144 Wis. 2d 223 - Schuster v. Altenberg (1988), Higgins v. Salt Lake County (1993)
4 district · 34 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 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Markowitz v. Arizona Parks Board · 34 Cal. 3d 695 - Hedlund v. Superior Court · Coburn v. City of Tucson · Hicks v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who takes charge of a third person whom he knows or should know to be likely to cause bodily harm to others if not controlled is under a duty to exercise reasonable care to control the third person to prevent him from doing such harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Tamsen v. Weber
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.