Lanterman v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 9 state decisions

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.

1. ““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.” Restatement (Second) of Torts § 316.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bell v. Hudgins

2. “As so succinctly pointed out in Prosser, The Law of Torts, § 123, at 873 (4th ed. 1971), negligence in controlling one’s child should not, of itself, be reason to find parental liability, as it ‘would be extending the hardships of harassed and exasperated parents too far to hold them hable for general incorrigibility, a bad education and upbringing, or the fact that the child turns out to have a nasty disposition.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crisafulli v. Bass