Reeves v. Gentile’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Sullivan v. Scoular Grain Co. of Utah (1993), Steffensen v. Smith's Management Corp. (1991)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Williams v. Melby · Mulherin v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. · Kvanli v. Village of Watson · Von Hake v. Thomas
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was to compensate innocent third parties by making dramshop owners strictly liable without regard to the finding of fault, wrongful intent, or negligent conduct on their part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The primary rule of statutory interpretation is to give effect to the intent of the legislature in light of the purpose the statute was meant to achieve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no defendant is liable to any person seeking recovery for any amount in excess of the proportion of fault attributable to that defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.