Peterson v. Halsted’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 165 Ill. 2d 181 - Zedella v. Gibson (1995), Graven v. Vail Associates, Inc. (1996)
3 district · 54 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 Churchey v. Adolph Coors Co. · Metropolitan Gas Repair Service, Inc. v. Kulik · University of Denver v. Whitlock · Taco Bell, Inc. v. Lannon · McCart v. Muir
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who supplies ... chattel for the use of another whom the supplier knows or has reason to know to be likely because of his youth, inexperience, or otherwise, to use it in a manner involving unreasonable risk of physical harm to himself and others ... is subject to liability for physical harm resulting to them,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the risk involved, the foreseeability and likelihood of injury as weighed against the social utility of the actor's conduct, the magnitude of the burden of guarding against injury or harm, and the consequences of placing the burden upon the actor.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of the negligent entrustment doctrine is to articulate a set of standards that if met, establish the duty and breach elements of a negligence claim without the necessity for the detailed analysis that often is required to determine the existence of a duty.”
2 later decisions 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.