Karavas v. Poulos’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Donaldson v. Maffucci (1959), Murray v. Siegal (1963)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Sweeney v. Blue Anchor Beverage Co. · Roberts v. Pitt Publishing Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who, being under no duty to do so takes charge of another who is helpless to adequately aid or protect himself is subject to liability to the other for any bodily harm caused by him by (a) the failure of the actor to exercise reasonable care to secure the safety of the other while within the actors charge; (b) the actor’s discontinuing his aid or protection, if by doing so he leaves the other in a worse position than when the actor took charge of him.”
2 later decisions 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.