Weber v. Towner County’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 1001 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably Shore v. Town of Stonington (1982), Stanley v. Central Intelligence Agency (1981)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Robert Johnson Grain Co. v. Chemical Interchange Co. · Windsor v. Bethesda General Hospital · Percival v. General Motors Corp.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 324 A. Liability to Third Person for Negligent Performance of Undertaking “One who undertakes, gratuitously or for consideration, to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of a third person or his things, is subject to liability to the third person for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to protect his undertaking, if “(a) his failure to exercise reasonable care increases the risk of such harm, or “(b) he has undertaken to perform a duty owed by the other to the third person, or “(c) the harm is suffered because of reliance of the other or the third person upon the undertaking.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court is justified in granting a summary judgment if, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion and giving that party the benefit of all inferences reasonably deducible, the court is convinced that, upon a trial of the case to a jury, a verdict in favor of the moving party would have to be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the movant has established his right to judgment with such clarity as to leave no room for controversy and that the other party is not entitled to recover under any possible circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.