Spar v. Obwoya’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Smith v. Wade (1983), 42 Cal. 3d 490 - Frances T. v. Village Green Owners Assn. (1986)
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 33 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 M. A. P. v. Ryan · Scott v. Watson · Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue Apartment Corp. · Kendall v. Gore Properties, Inc. · Harris v. Wagshal
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence supports the theory that the negligence of appellants here was not their failure to install the type of front door that would have repulsed every conceivable criminal attack, but their failure to do anything to improve upon a front door lock which was easily rendered inoperative, as viewed against their knowledge, actual or constructive, of these circumstances. * * * * * * In sum, then, we conclude that the jury possessed adequate information upon which to find proximate cause, and therefore their verdict on the issue of liability must stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benser v. Johnson“a test of whether the injury is the natural and probable consequence of the negligent or wrongful act and ought to be foreseen in light of the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was evidence of ... individual apartment units of the building being burglarized by forcible entry from the common hallway,” as well as”
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.