Sherer v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Kramer v. Lewisville Memorial Hospital (1993), McCourt by and Through McCourt v. Abernathy (1995)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 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 Winburn v. Insurance Co. of North America · 136 Ill. App. 3d 468 - Curry v. Summer · Hanselmann v. McCardle · Roundtree Villas Assoc., Inc. v. KINGS CORP. · Clark v. Ross
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 56 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 the other’s person or things, is subject to liability to the other for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to perform his undertaking, if (a) his failure to exercise such care increases the risk of such harm, or (b) the harm is suffered because of the other’s reliance upon the undertaking.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Section 323(a) simply establishes a duty on one who undertakes to render services for the protection of another to use due care to avoid increasing the risk of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“applies only to duty and not proximate cause.”
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.