Cook v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hoover's Dairy, Inc. v. Mid-America Dairymen, Inc./Special Products, Inc. · Dixon v. General Grocery Company · Wells v. Goforth · Wolfson v. Chelist · Carter v. Kinney
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not the supervisor's control over the instrumentality that caused the harm, but the obligation and ability to supervise and control the child that is the decisive factor in a negligent supervision of a minor case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'the particular standard of care that society recognizes as applicable under a given set of facts is a question of law for the courts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the existence of a relationship between the plaintiff and defendant that the law recognizes as the basis of a duty of care.”
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.