Roy v. Neibauer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Frigon v. Morrison-Maierle, Inc. (1988), Mularoni v. Bing (2001)
1 district · 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 Roy v. Neibauer · Jackson v. William Dingwall Company · Kakos v. Byram · Johnson v. Furgeson
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.
“It is an elementary principle of law that before a claim for relief can be made against a defendant for negligence, the existence of a duty by the defendant to the plaintiff must be shown, along with the breach of that duty and a resulting injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yager v. Deane
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.