State v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Nusbaum v. County of Blue Earth (1988), Lewis v. State (1977)
4 district · 46 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 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Indian Towing Company v. United States · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Friederichsen v. Renard · State v. Silva · The American Exchange Bank of Madison, Wisconsin, as of the Estate of Pauline H. Williams, Deceased v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once having decided to construct a parking lot, the city was obligated to use due care to make certain that the parking lot met the standard of reasonable safety for those who would use it. Such was the operational stage for which the statute does not exempt the city from liability if due care has not been used and an injury is caused.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. An award for damages in an action sounding in tort brought under NRS 41.031 [waiving the State's sovereign immunity] or against a present or former officer or employee of the state or any political subdivision, immune contractor or state legislator arising out of an act or omission within the scope of his public duties or employment may not exceed the sum of $50,000, exclusive of interest computed from the date of judgment, to or for the benefit of any claimant. An award may not include any amount as exemplary or punitive damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although joined in one complaint, an action for wrongful death and an action for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff in the same accident are separate, distinct and independent. . . . They rest on different facts and may be separately maintained.”
2 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.