Doyle v. Bowdoin College’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement v. Johnson Controls, Inc. (1991), 119 Wash. 2d 484 - Scott v. Pacific West Mountain Resort (1992)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 United States v. Seckinger · 60 Cal. 2d 92 - Tunkl v. Regents of University of California · Employers Liability Assurance Corp. v. Greenville Business Men's Ass'n · Kroger Company v. Giem · 43 Wis. 2d 36 - Young v. Anaconda American Brass 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.
“expressly spell[ed] out with the greatest particularity the intention of the parties contractually to extinguish negligence liability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because we do not construe the documents executed ... as releases or indemnification agreements, we have no occasion to reach the further issue whether contractual provisions which relieve a party from liability for that party's own negligence would be unenforceable and void as contravening public policy. See, e.g., Tunkl v. Regents of University of California, 60 Cal.2d 92 , 32 Cal.Rptr. 33 , 383 P.2d 441 (1963); Prosser, Torts § 68 (4th ed.1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardy v. St. Clair“a parent, or guardian, cannot release the child's, or ward's, cause of action”
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.