Nicholson v. Tacker’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Del Lago Partners, Inc. v. Smith (2010), Thompson v. Presbyterian Hospital, Inc. (1982)
8 federal appellate · 28 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 Jack Healey Linen Service Co. v. Travis · Beatty v. Dixon · Pruitt v. Timme · Hull v. Oklahoma City Baseball Co. · Harrod v. Baggett
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just because the defendant has created a risk which harmed the plaintiff that does not mean that, in the absence of some duty to the plaintiff, the defendant will be held liable.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“the fact that the danger is open and obvious nullifies duty of defendant to plaintiff.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The existence of a duty on part of the defendant to protect plaintiff from injury; (2) the failure of the defendant to perform his duty; and (3) the injury to plaintiff resulting from such failure.”
3 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.