Tappen v. Ager’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 376 · 1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Nelson v. Miller (1980), Garcia v. RODEY, DICKASON, SLOAN (1988)
7 federal appellate · 11 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Dawson v. Associates Financial Services Co. of Kansas, Inc. · Hauser v. Bartow · Norton v. Hines · Vaughn v. Murray · Froelich v. Adair
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]egligence does not exist in the abstract, it contemplates a legal duty owing from one party to another....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no room for existence of a duty running to the adversary.”
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.