Seibert v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2005
20 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 Christiansen v. Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. · Canzoneri v. Heckert · Hopkins v. Droppers · McGee v. Hahn
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`A parent is under a duty to exercise reasonable care so to control his minor child as to prevent it from intentionally harming others or from so conducting itself as to create an unreasonable risk of bodily harm to them, if the parent (a) knows or has reason to know that he has the ability to control his child, and (b) knows or should know of the necessity and opportunity for exercising such control.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`. . . b. The duty of a parent is only to exercise such ability to control his child as he in fact has at the time when he has the opportunity to exercise it and knows the necessity of *Page 166 so doing. . . .'" Restatement, 2 Torts, sec. 316, pages 858-859, quoted in Seibert , at page 463.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was out of town at the time and had no immediate control of the situation.”
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.