Tatum v. LANCE’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2000
7 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 City of Greenville v. Laury · Winn v. Haliday · Dempsey v. Frazier · Police Jury v. Terrebonne Land Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under common law, parents can be liable for their children’s acts “where the [parents’s own] negligence has made it possible for the child to cause the injury complained of and probable that the child would do so.” This is the cause of action known as negligent supervision, and it is based on the simple premise that parents have a societal duty to exercise reasonable care in the supervision of their minor children so as to prevent them from intentionally injuring others. An actionable claim of negligent supervision, as is the case with all negligence claims, requires that the plaintiff establish the existence of a duty of care, a breach of that duty, proximate causation, and compensable damages. Each element must be satisfied. This requires not only that the plaintiff show negligence and injury, but that the injury sustained by the plaintiff was a rea-' sonably foreseeable consequence of the defendant’s negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The further question is whether or not the parents of the Lance child as reasonably prudent persons should have reasonably foreseen or anticipated that the maid in the Lance home would be sick, that it would become necessary for Mrs. Lance to take her to a doctor, and that Mr. Lance, who had gone for his child at the school, would miss the bus, and that during such interval the Lance child would be left in the home alone, and that he would search the house for the shots which his father had concealed therein and would succeed in locating the same, and then use the gun to the injury of another.”
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.