Cotterhill v. Bafile’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably McClung v. Delta Square Ltd. Partnership (1996), Taeger v. CATHOLIC FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVS. (1999)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Selby v. Savard · McFarlin v. Hall · Pioneer Roofing Co. v. Mardian Construction Co. · 104 Wash. 2d 613 - Gammon v. Clark Equipment Co. · Reeves v. Markle
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable jury could have inferred that the probability of a fight was evident for several minutes before it occurred, and that the bartender neglected to take reasonable action to avert violence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the bartender did not attempt to calm the situation, ask anyone to leave, threaten to call the police[,] or call the police during that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of jury instructions is to explain the applicable law to the jury in terms that it can understand.”
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.