Cain v. Rijken’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 144 Wis. 2d 223 - Schuster v. Altenberg (1988), 145 Md. App. 256 - Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Utica Mutual Ins. Co. (2002)
4 district · 23 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Even when a special relationship is the basis for the duty of care owed by one person to another, *** if the special relationship (or status or standard of conduct) does not prescribe a particular scope of duty, then 'common law principles of reasonable care and foreseeability of harm are relevant.' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`shall' create[s] a mandatory duty, while `may' creates only authority to act.”
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.