Esco v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2011
14 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 Canter v. Koehring Company · Stansbury v. Mayor and Councilmen of Morgan City · Dyson v. Gulf Modular Corp. · 242 So. 2d 627 - Chaney v. Brupbacher · 426 So. 2d 111 - Hebert v. Gulf States Utilities 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the party's conduct conformed) to the standard of care that would be exercised by a reasonable man; or did the conduct breach a duty imposed upon the party to protect against the particular risk from which the accident resulted?'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“person who poured the last cup of water before the defective dam broke, unless that person exercised a substantial amount of knowledgeable control over the dangerous situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Varying factors affect what the standard of the reasonable man requires.”
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.