E.P. v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2021
1 district · 15 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on State v. Goodroad · Kyllo v. Panzer · Walther v. KPKA Meadowlands Ltd. Partnership · State v. Larson · Robertson v. Wentz
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no duty so to control the conduct of a third person as to prevent him from causing physical harm to another unless (a) a special relation exists between the actor and the third person which imposes a duty upon the actor to control the third person's conduct, or (b) a special relation exists between the actor and the other which gives to the other a right to protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kirlin v. Halverson“`an ordinance or statute that sets forth mandatory acts clearly for the protection of a particular class of persons rather than the public as a whole,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`failure by the state to use due care to avoid increasing the risk of harm.'”
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.