Delaney v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
10 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Pederson v. Time, Inc. · Augat, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Lake v. Atlantic Works · Rae v. Air-Speed, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a legal duty owed to the plaintiff by the defendant; (2) a breach of that duty by the defendant; (3) causation; and (4) actual loss by the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“response was to hand [his girlfriend] his gun and instruct her to go outside so as not to make a mess in his house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cotten v. Wilson“that she had 'had enough of this and [she] wanted to end [her] life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cotten v. Wilson
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.