Kane v. Lamothe’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2022
2 district · 9 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 Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales · Sabia v. State · Denis Bail Bonds, Inc. v. State · Mellin v. Flood Brook Union School District · Kugel v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether a statute sets forth mandatory acts for the protection of a particular class of persons; (2) whether the government has knowledge that particular persons within that class are in danger; (3) whether those persons have relied on the government’s representations or conduct; and (4) whether the government’s failure to use due care would increase the risk of harm beyond what it was at the time the government acted or failed to act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The similarities between no-duty rules and immunity rules are so great that the two terms can often be used interchangeably[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual allegations satisfy the necessary elements of a recognized cause of action.”
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.