Hamilton v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Stone v. North Carolina Department of Labor (1998), Hunt v. North Carolina Department of Labor (1998)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · City of Rome v. Jordan · Department of Transportation v. Brown · Anderson v. Little & Davenport Funeral Home, Inc. · 212 Ga. App. 700 - Landis v. Rockdale County
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an assumption by the municipality, through promises or actions, of an affirmative duty to act on behalf of the party who was injured; (2) knowledge on the part of the municipality's agent that inaction could lead to harm; (3) some form of direct contact between the municipality's agents and the injured party; and (4) that party's justifiable reliance on the municipality's affirmative undertaking....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“was directed squarely and only at the duty owed by a governmental entity to provide police protection to individual citizens.”
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.