Cotter v. Novak’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 1994
most recently cited
2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Krametbauer v. McDonald · De Baca v. Kahn · Valdez v. Gonzales · Reif v. Morrison · Selby v. Tolbert
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘Negligent conduct may be either* “ ‘(a) an act which the' actor as a reasonable man should realize " as involving an unreasonable risk of ,caus: ing an invasion of an interest of another, or “‘(b) a failure to do an act which is necessary for the protection or. assistance of another and which the actor is under a duty to do.’ Sec. 284 Restatement of the Law of Torts.7”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Sanchez
How this case has been treated — in progress
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