Jeffcoat v. Caine’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1999
9 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 Vermillion v. Woman's College of Due West · Lindler v. Columbia Hospital · Peden v. Furman University · Decker v. Bishop of Charleston · Eiserhardt v. State Agricultural and Mechanical Society
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of total exemption is, perhaps, without exception, based upon grounds of public policy. That is the principle upon which liability was denied by the court en banc in the Lindler Case, and, as has been shown, its logical application requires exemption of public charities for the torts of their superior officers and agents as well as for those of their servants or employés, whether these be selected with or without due care. 88 S.E. at p. 650 [emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hile there can be no doubt that [our] decisions contain broad general expressions to the effect that charitable institutions are exempt from all tort liability, the rule has never been extended beyond exemption from liability for mere negligence. Therefore, the application of the immunity doctrine in a case of intentional tort is not required by precedent, nor, we conclude, by reason or justice. [ Id. ]”
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.