Victor v. SHEPHERD SCHOOL DISTRICT 37’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Fisher v. Swift Transportation Co. (2008), Faulconbridge v. State (2006)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 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 Mang v. Eliasson · LaTray v. City of Havre · Udelhoven v. State, Department of Public Health & Human Services · Kolar v. Bergo · Nautilus Insurance v. First National Insurance
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Put simply, in analyzing foreseeability in the duty context, we look to whether or not the injured party was within the scope of risk created by the alleged negligence of the tortfeasor-that is, was the injured party a foreseeable plaintiff?””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The risk reasonably to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed." [ Palsgraf , 162 N.E. at 100 .] That is to say, a defendant owes a duty with respect to those risks or hazards whose likelihood made the conduct unreasonably dangerous, and hence negligent in the first instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bassett v. Lamantia“whether the defendant could have reasonably foreseen that his or her conduct could have resulted in an injury to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bassett v. Lamantia
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.