Carson v. Adgar’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2015
20 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 Chapman v. Burton Berger & Associates · McGee by and Through McGee v. Chalfant · Rayfield Ex Rel. Estate of Rayfield v. South Carolina Department of Corrections · Russell v. City of Columbia · Ballou v. Sigma Nu General Fraternity
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the law recognizes a particular duty is an issue of law to be decided by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who, being under no duty to do so, takes charge of another who is helpless adequately to aid or protect himself is subject to liability to the other for any bodily harm caused to him by (a) the failure of the actor to exercise reasonable care to secure the safety of the other while within the actor’s charge, or (b) the actor’s discontinuing his aid or protection, if by so doing he leaves the other in a worse position than when the actor took charge of him.”
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.