Fraley v. Worthington’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
June 1989
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arnstein v. Porter · Giordano v. Lee · Ransom v. Haner · Broderick Wood Products Co. v. United States · Markle v. Williamson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agent who, by promise or otherwise, undertakes to act for his principal under such circumstances that some action is necessary for their protection of the person or tangible things of another, is subject to liability to the other for physical harm to him or to his things caused by the reliance of the principal or of the other upon his undertaking and his subsequent unexcused failure to act, if such failure creates an unreasonable risk of harm to him and the agent should so realize.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Case v. Goss
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.