Scadden v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 141 N.C. App. 273 - Block v. County of Person · 89 N.C. App. 188 - Coleman v. Cooper · Stein v. Asheville City Board of Education · 121 N.C. App. 466 - Hedrick v. Rains · Hedrick v. Rains
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an exception to the general rule ... where there is a special relationship between the defendant and the third person which imposes a duty upon the defendant to control the third person's conduct....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) parent-child; (2) master-servant; (3) landowner-licensee; (4) custodian-prisoner; and (5) institution-involuntarily committed mental patient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the defendant knows or should know of the third person's violent propensities and (2) the defendant has the ability and opportunity to control the third person at the time of the third person's criminal acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.