Solberg v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Delfino v. Griffo (2011), Oki Semiconductor Company v. Wells Fargo Bank National Association (2002)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 24 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that defendant's conduct caused a foreseeable risk of harm, (2) that the risk is to an interest of a kind that the law protects against negligent invasion, (3) that defendant's conduct was unreasonable in light of the risk, (4) that the conduct was a cause of plaintiff's harm, and (5) that plaintiff was within the class of persons and plaintiff's injury was within the general type of potential incidents and injuries that made defendant's conduct negligent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“one who receives guests, whether friends or associates, in a social or commercial setting, in which the host serves or directs the serving of alcohol to guests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The typical example of a social host ... is where a host invites associates to participate in a social gathering, in a private setting, and furnishes and serves alcohol to a guest. But not every host entertains guests at home. Many entertain at hotels, clubs or resorts. Hosting at taverns is not uncommon____ One may ... ante up per drink at a tavern and still be a host.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Delfino v. Griffo
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.