Stanturf v. Sipes’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County (1974), 86 Wash. 2d 293 - Brown v. MacPherson's, Inc. (1975)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 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 McDonald v. Massachusetts General Hospital · Levin v. Sinai Hosp. of Balto. · Cooper Ex Rel. Cooper v. Finke · Van Campen v. Olean General Hospital · Abernathy v. Sisters of St. Mary's
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who undertakes, gratuitously or for consideration, to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of the other’s person or things, is subject to liability to the other for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to perform his undertaking, if (a) his failure to exercise such care increases the risk of such harm, or (b) the harm is suffered because of the other’s reliance upon the undertaking.”
8 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.