Engstrom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Marcus v. Young (1995), Kelly v. Sinclair Oil Corp. (1991)
6 federal appellate · 25 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Lehr v. Robertson
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.
“[a] contract imposes upon each party a duty of good faith in its performance and enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] fundamental principle of tort law is that violation of a legal right by a wrongdoer is a prerequisite to obtain redress for a claimed wrong. Thus, it is necessary to show a duty owed the injured party by the wrongdoer, and a violation of that duty. This duty, or standard of conduct of a reasonable person, may be established by legislative enactment or by judicial decision. Not every claim of negligence creates a civil cause of action. The issue of whether a particular duty arises out of parties’ relationship is always a matter of law for the court to decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keller v. State“gives recognition to and a remedy for a cause of action already existing by reason of a wrong done but for which redress could not previously be had because of the common law doctrine of governmental immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raas v. State
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.