Ulwick v. DeChristopher’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Jupin v. Kask (2006), Luoni v. Berube (2000)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 39 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 Honig v. Doe · Kelly v. Gwinnell · Congini by Congini v. PORTERSVILLE ETC. · Fassett v. Delta Kappa Epsilon · Coveney v. President & Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t has long been the rule in this Commonwealth [unlike the rule in Pennsylvania] that violation of a statute does not by itself establish a breach of duty, for it does not constitute negligence per se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cremins v. Clancy“[t]hese principles, and the consideration that the duty of care follows from control over the liquor supply, furnish practical limits of potential liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cremins v. Clancy“where the record disclosed that the defendants had participated in the planning or funding of social events where liquor was consumed by minors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cremins v. Clancy
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.