Ferree v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 195 - Taggart v. State (1992), Kirk v. State (1989)
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 75 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 27 Cal. 3d 741 - Thompson v. County of Alameda · 32 Cal. 3d 197 - Davidson v. City of Westminster · Poola v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW · Grimm v. Arizona Board of Pardons & Paroles · Cansler v. State
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an obligation, to which the law will give recognition and effect, to conform to a particular standard of conduct toward another.? " Id. at 820-21 (citation omitted). Generally, whether a duty of care is owed is " 'entirely a question of law to be determined by the court'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“For a governmental agency and its agents to be liable for negligently caused injury suffered by a member of the public, the plaintiff must show a breach of a duty owed him as an individual, not merely the breach of an obligation owed to the general public at large by the governmental official.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“conceptually arises subsequent to the question of whether there is tort liability in the first instance.”
5 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.