Larson v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Banks v. Bowen's Landing Corp. (1987), ServiceMaster of St. Cloud v. GAB Business Services, Inc. (1996)
4 district · 66 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Cairl v. State · Lundgren v. Fultz · Rieger v. Zackoski · Pietila v. Congdon
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was no reasonable basis for a reasonable person in appellant’s situation at the time he asked his brother to watch his house to anticipate that the person-who had made the threat two months previously would follow through on his drunken exclamations. Because, under the circumstances of this case, it was so speculative and unforeseeable that the threat would mature into harm, we conclude that the trial court should have held this as a matter of law that appellant had no duty to warn of such unforeseeable speculative danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patzwald v. Krey
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.