Lafferty v. Rhudy’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 876
Relies on Christy v. Petrus · Stafford v. Muster · Aluma Kraft Manufacturing Co. v. Elmer Fox & Co. · Ritterbusch v. Holt · Wells v. Orthwein
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general rule is that a statute which does not purport to establish a civil liability, but merely makes provision to secure the safety or welfare of the public as an entity, is not subject to a construction establishing a civil liability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] statute which creates a criminal offense and provides a penalty for its violation will not be construed as creating a new civil cause of action independently of the common law, unless such appears by express terms or by clear implication to have been the legislative intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Otte v. Edwards
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.