Jeffords v. Lesesne’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Young Ex Rel. Estate of Young v. Tide Craft, Inc. · Shipes v. Piggly Wiggly St. Andrews, Inc. · Fleming v. Borden, Inc. · Greenville Memorial Auditorium v. Martin · Childers v. Gas Lines, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a duty of care owed by defendant to plaintiff; (2) defendant's breach of that duty by a negligent act or omission; and (3) damages to plaintiff proximately resulting from the breach of duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“attract[ ] bystanders who were within this [high-crime] area,”
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.