Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2017
9 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 In re Dunnuck · Peavler v. BD. OF COM'RS MONROE CTY. · Tibbs v. Huber, Hunt & Nichols, Inc. · Hermann v. Yater · Town of Highland v. Zerkel
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a function involving the formulation of basic policy characterized by official judgment, discretion, weighing of alternatives, and public policy choices”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“governmental entity or an employee acting within the seope of the employee's employment is not liable if a loss results from ... [the performance of a discretionary function.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“bears the burden of proving that its conduct falls within the Act, and thus is shielded from liability.”
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.