Sherer v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 1996
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hamil v. Bashline · Fitzpatrick v. International Railway Co. · Hanselmann v. McCardle · Riddle-Duckworth, Inc. v. Sullivan · Baker v. Weaver
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who undertakes, gratuitously or for consideration, to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of another’s person ... is subject to liability to the other for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to perform his undertaking, if his failure to exercise such care increases the risk of such harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherer v. James
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.