Christensen v. Epley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Cansler v. State (1984), White v. United States (1986)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Brennen v. City of Eugene · State v. Silva · Williams v. State of New York · Chow v. Brockway · 91 So. 2d 153 - Green v. STATE, DEPT. OF HWYS.
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.
“One who takes charge of a third person whom he knows or should know to be likely to cause bodily harm to another if not controlled is under a duty to exercise reasonable care to control the third person to prevent him from doing such harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“sufficiently desperate as to be `dangerous,' so as to `pose a threat of physical injury'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“for loss of the society, companionship and services of the decedent; * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.