Rhodes v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Kroger Co. v. Plonski (2010), Brian Yost v. Wabash College, Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity- Indiana Gamma Chapter at Wabash College, Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, Inc., and Nathan Cravens (2014)
110 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 Havert v. Caldwell · Peters v. Forster · Douglass v. Irvin · Majors v. Abell · Corcoran 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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is because negligence cases are particularly fact sensitive and are governed by a standard of the objective reasonable person-one best applied by a jury after hearing all of the evidence.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“In premises liability cases, whether a duty is owed depends primarily upon whether the defendant was in control of the premises when the accident occurred.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to prevail on a claim of negligence, a plaintiff is required to prove: (1) a duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff; (2) a breach of that duty by the defendant; and (8) an injury to the plaintiff proximately caused by the breach.”
4 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.