Mellen v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Gregg v. Ham (2012), McKnight v. South Carolina Department of Corrections (2009)
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Clark v. Cantrell · Gamble v. Stevenson · Welch v. Epstein · Laird v. Nationwide Insurance
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an attempt or offer, with force or violence, to inflict bodily harm on another or engage in some offensive conduct”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Proximate cause requires proof of both causation in fact and legal cause. Causation in fact is proved by establishing the plaintiff's injury would not have occurred "but for” the defendant’s action. Legal cause is proved by establishing foreseeability. Legal cause is ordinarily a question of fact.... Only when the evidence is susceptible to only one inference does it become a matter of law for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally speaking, a battery is the unlawful touching or striking of another by the aggressor himself or by any substance put in motion by him, done with the intention of bringing about a harmful or offensive contact which is not le- gaily consented to by the other, and not otherwise privileged. It is sometimes defined as any injury done to the person of another in a rude, insolent, or revengeful way,”
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.