Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Kowal v. Hofher (1980), Ono v. Applegate (1980)
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 Dalehite v. United States · In re Disbarment of Gately · 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · Laird v. Nelms · Gordon v. United States
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a minimum standard of care for conduct generally required of the reasonably prudent man under like circumstances for purposes of a common law action of negligence based on the sale or furnishing of intoxicating liquor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Haafke v. Mitchell · Bauer v. Dann“the protection of the welfare, health, peace, morals, and safety of the people of the state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Haafke v. Mitchell · Bauer v. Dann“the sale or furnishing of intoxicating liquor in violation of section 123.43 [now section 123.47] may well be the proximate cause of injuries sustained as a result of an intoxicated individual's tortious conduct and liability may thus be imposed upon the violators in favor of the injured, innocent third party. The question of proximate cause under such facts and circumstances would be for the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bauer v. Dann · Clark v. Mincks
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.