Bellezzo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Hafner v. Beck (1995), Lasley v. Shrake's Country Club Pharmacy, Inc. (1994)
30 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 Orme School v. Reeves · Pokora v. Wabash Railway Co. · Markowitz v. Arizona Parks Board · Akins v. Glens Falls City School District · Jones v. Three Rivers Management Corp.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first question in this action, as in any negligence action, is whether [defendant] owed any duty of care to [plaintiff]. That is, was the relationship of the parties “such that [defendant was] under an obligation to use some care to avoid or prevent injury to [plaintiff]”? Whether a defendant owes a duty to a plaintiff generally presents an issue of law for the trial court and is therefore appropriate for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hafner v. Beck“sufficient for those spectators who may be reasonably anticipated to desire protected seats on an ordinary occasion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the danger of being struck by a foul ball was open and obvious”); Maisonave, 881 A.2d at 706 (stating that”
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.