Reams v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2006
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hailes v. Gonzales · Oliver v. Forsyth · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. White · Hodnett v. Friend
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he duty is to look with reasonable care, not an absolute duty to discover by looking, unless the thing to be looked for is in such plain view that looking with reasonable care [one] was bound to have discovered it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burroughs v. Keffer
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.