Bradshaw v. Rawlings’s Empirical Analysis
612 F.2d 135 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Nero v. Kansas State University (1993), Alumni Ass'n v. Sullivan (1990)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Goss v. Lopez · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he modern American college is not an insurer of the safety of its student. 18 Whatever may have been its responsibility in an earlier era, the authoritarian role of today's college administrations has been notably diluted in recent decades.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Negligence in the air, so to speak, will not do.” As Professor Prosser has emphasized, the statement that there is or is not a duty begs the essential question, which is whether the plaintiff’s interests are entitled to legal protection from the defendant’s conduct. “ ‘Duty’ is not sacrosanct in itself, but only an expression of the sum total of those considerations of policy which lead the law to say that a particular plaintiff is entitled to protection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] college regulation that essentially tracks a state law and prohibits conduct that to students under twenty-one is al ready prohibited by state law, does not, in our view, indicate that a college voluntarily assumed a custodial relationship with its students [for tort analysis purposes].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.