Allmaras v. Mudge’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Metz Beverage Co. v. Wyoming Beverages, Inc. (2002), Moncrief v. Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. (1993)
25 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Cordova v. Gosar · Stephens v. State · O'Malley v. Eagan · McClellan v. Tottenhoff
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Wyoming law, the tort of negligence must be based upon the breach of a duty where that breach proximately caused an injury to the plaintiff. Whether a legal duty exists is a question of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Makinen v. PM P.C.“where the record fails to establish an issue of material fact, [and when the mov-ant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law), the entry of summary judgment is proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Proximate cause means that the accident or injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the act of negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Glazier v. State
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.