Garner v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2018
1 district · 5 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 Midland National Bank of Minneapolis v. Perranoski · Buchman Plumbing Co., Inc. v. Regents of the U. of M. · Reinhardt v. Colton · Chemlease Worldwide Inc. v. Brace, Inc. · Walton v. Jones
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no support for appellant's further argument that [the lessor] owed a duty of care under the principles of common law negligence. ... There is no evidence that [the lessor] ... assumed a duty to keep the equipment in repair[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A motion for a directed verdict presents a question of law regarding the sufficiency of the evidence to raise a fact question for the jury’s decision.”
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.