Marlar v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Wagner v. General Motors Corp. (2007), Yanmar Co. v. Slater (2012)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Keck v. American Employment Agency, Inc. · Shannon v. Wilson · Young v. Paxton · Crockett v. Essex · Smith v. Rogers Group, 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“_j¿t]he law of negligence requires as essential elements that the plaintiff show that a duty was owed and that the duty was breached. The question of what duty, if any, is owed a plaintiff alleging negligence is always a question of law and never one for the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Summary judgment is no longer viewed by this court as a drastic remedy; rather, it is viewed simply as one of the tools in a circuit court’s efficiency arsenal. It should be granted only when it is clear that there are no genuine issues of material fact to be litigated and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. All proof must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, and any doubts must be resolved against the moving party. Once the moving party has established a prima facie entitlement to summary judgment, the opposing party must meet proof with proof and demonstrate the existence of a material issue of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Duty is a concept that arises out of the recognition that relations between individuals may impose upon one a legal obligation for the other.”
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.