Lannon v. Taco Bell, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2020
1 district · 6 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 Iverson v. Solsbery
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court must consider the consequences and effect that imposing such specific means of fulfilling the duty would have upon society and the individual involved. These considerations cannot, because of our system of precedential law, be limited solely to the case at bar; rather, they are policy decisions with far reaching implications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hesse v. McClintic“Whether the defendant owed a duty to the class in which the plaintiff found [itself is a question of law for the court based on the foreseeable appreciable risk of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that Taco Bell had a duty, as a matter of law, to hire armed guards to protect its patrons from injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.