Stiver v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 261 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2010
8 federal appellate · 4 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Matter of Baby M. · Moning v. Alfono · Hart v. Ludwig
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“existing custom and practice in the profession ... define[ ] the standard of liability applicable to the particular professional conduct in question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““... conclusion] that Keane, the surrogacy business designer and broker, and the other defendant professionals who profited from the program, owed affirmative duties to the Stivers and to Malahoff, the surrogacy program beneficiaries. This duty, an affirmative duty of protection, marked by a heightened diligence, arises out of a special relationship because the defendants engaged in the surrogacy business and expected to profit thereby.””
1 later decision 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.