Clark v. Dalman’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 30 Mass. App. Ct. 318 - Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc. v. Home Insurance (1991), Garden City Osteopathic Hospital v. HBE Corp. (1995)
26 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ctionable negligence presupposes the existence of a legal relationship between parties by which the injured party is owed a duty by the other, and such duty must be imposed by law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“so as not to unreasonably endanger the well-being of ... anyone else lawfully on the site of the project....”
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.