Ross v. Clouser’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 3 Cal. 4th 296 - Knight v. Jewett (1992), Marchetti v. Kalish (1990)
6 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 21 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 31 Ill. App. 3d 212 - Nabozny v. Barnhill · 331 So. 2d 40 - Bourque v. Duplechin · Gregory v. Robinson · Niemczyk v. Burleson · Turpin v. Shoemaker
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]easonable control should exist to protect the players and the game.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`which inhere[d] in the game [or was one] ... outside the realm of reasonable anticipation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]rganized, athletic competition does not exist in a vacuum. Rather, some of the restraints of civilization must accompany every athlete onto the playing field.”
2 later decisions 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.