Plan-Tec, Inc. v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Wingett v. Teledyne Industries, Inc. (1985), Ember v. B.F.D., Inc. (1986)
8 federal appellate · 59 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 Patterson v. State · Ashton v. Anderson · 168 Ind. App. 336 - Hale v. Peabody Coal Company · English Coal Co., Inc. v. Durcholz · Dahlberg v. Ogle
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A duty of care may ... arise where one party assumes such a duty, either gratuitously or voluntarily. The assumption of such a duty creates a special relationship between the parties and a corresponding duty to act in the manner of a reasonably prudent person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[i]n no case shall ... the Construction Manager ... have either direct or indirect responsibility for matters relative to Project safety.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n instruction which singles out or gives undue prominence to a particular fact or evidence is erroneous.”
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.