Baker v. Dorfman’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.3d 415 · 2000
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Official Committee of the Unsecureds of Color Tile Inc v. Coopers & Lybrand Llp Sa Abf Ec W J E III F Aibc Bv Cip, SCS Communications, Inc. v. Herrick Co. (2004)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Singleton v. Wulff · McCarthy v. Manson · Metromedia Co. v. Fugazy · Tyler v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant’s conduct is negligent as creating an unreasonable risk of bodily harm to a plaintiff and such conduct is a substantial factor in bringing about injuries to the plaintiff in consequence of shock or fright resulting from his or her contemporaneous observation of serious physical injury or death inflicted by the defendant’s conduct on a member of the plaintiffs immediate family in his or her presence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the issue is purely legal and there is no need for additional fact-finding.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“retain broad discretion to consider issues not raised initially in the District Court”
3 later decisions 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.