Roberson v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1990
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Abalos v. Oil Development Co. of Texas · Buchanan v. Rose
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who undertakes ... to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of a third person ... is subject to liability to the third person for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to protect his undertaking, if the harm is suffered because of reliance of the other or third person upon the undertaking.”
1 later decision 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.