Kooly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2025
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 D. S. W. ex rel. R. M. W. v. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District · Wright v. State · Division of Corrections, Department of Health & Social Services v. Neakok · R.E. ex rel. D.E. v. State · City of Kotzebue v. McLean
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]etermining whether a duty exists in [a case alleging negligence by the State] is the first analytical step in deciding whether a negligence action can be maintained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the process of finding that a defendant owes a duty to a plaintiff is one which involves a fine balancing of conflicting policies; it is in essence an attempt to determine whether it would be fair and equitable to require an individual to act ... in a specified manner so as to avoid undue risk of harm to third persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Before we determine whether a statutory immunity applies to a given case, we will determine whether the State would be liable to the plaintiff in the absence of the immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Angnabooguk 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.