Trosclair v. Bechtel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 162 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2002
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · Edward J. Sweeney & Sons, Inc. v. Texaco, Inc. · Roberson v. United States · Jeter v. St. Regis Paper Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who undertakes, gratuitously or for consideration, to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of a third person or his things, is subject to liability to the third person for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to protect his undertaking, if (a) his failure to exercise reasonable care increases the risk of such harm, or (b) he has undertaken to perform a duty owed by the other to the third person, or (c) the harm is suffered because of reliance of the other or the third person upon the undertaking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To impose liability under Section 324A(c), there must be proof of actual reliance on .a contractual undertaking or representations by the defendant that resulted in acts or omissions by the party relying on the defendant’s undertaking. Stacy v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., 484 F.2d 289, 295 (5th Cir.1973).”
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.