Bittle v. Brunetti’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Vigil v. Franklin (2004), Allstate Insurance Co. v. Parfrey (1992)
3 district · 23 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 Cort v. Ash · Mile High Fence Co. v. Radovich · Stewart v. 104 Wallace Street, Inc. · University of Denver v. Whitlock · Mirza v. Filmore Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the ordinance obviously benefits pedestrians indirectly, in light of the common law no duty rule we conclude that the ordinance should be understood as one intended primarily to benefit the municipality by helping it to perform its duty to keep the public sidewalks safe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Redd“[The long history of our common law no duty rule creates a presumption of reliance on that rule and renders automatic application of the negligence per se doctrine inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Redd“it is not fair or appropriate for courts to use snow removal ordinances to impose civil liability absent explicit instructions from the legislative branch of government”
1 later decision 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.