Thompson v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
42
cited by 42 later decisions
4
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
42 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 74 Wis. 2d 526 - Coffey v. City of Milwaukee · Braswell v. Braswell · Schear v. Board of County Commissioners · Isenhour v. Hutto · Adams v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has not heretofore applied the public duty doctrine to a claim against a municipality or county in a situation involving any group or individual other than law enforcement. After careful review of appellate decisions on the public duty doctrine in this state and other jurisdictions, we conclude that the public duty doctrine does not bar this claim against Lee County for negligent inspection of plaintiffs' private residence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]xceptions to the doctrine exist: (1) where there is a special relationship between the injured party and the governmental entity; and (2) when the governmental entity creates a special duty by promising protection to an individual, the protection is not forthcoming, and the individual's reliance on the promise of protection is causally related to the injury suffered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the allegations of the complaint, if treated as true, are sufficient to state a claim upon which relief can be granted under some legal theory.”
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.