S.I. v. Cutler’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
39
cited by 39 later decisions
2
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
39 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Hoiengs v. County of Adams · Zeller v. County of Howard · Parrish v. Omaha Public Power District · Schmidt v. Omaha Public Power District
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[D]uty’ is a question of whether the defendant is under any obligation for the benefit of the particular plaintiff; and in negligence cases, the duty is. always the same — to conform to the legal standard of reasonable conduct in the light of the apparent risk. . . . “A duty, in negligence cases, may be defined as an obligation, to which the law will give recognition and effect, to conform to a particular standard of conduct toward another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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