Gentry v. Craycraft’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Santho v. Boy Scouts of America (2006), Horvath v. Ish (2012)
87 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 Thompson v. McNeill · Marchetti v. Kalish · 137 Ill. App. 3d 1028 - Ramos v. City of Countryside
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here individuals engage in recreational or sports activities, they assume the ordinary risks of the activity and cannot recover for any injury unless it can be shown that the other participant's actions were either `reckless' or `intentional' as defined in Sections 500 and 8A of the Restatement of Torts 2d.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he law simply deems certain risks as accepted by plaintiff regardless of actual knowledge or consent.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]pectators as well as participants `must accept from a participant conduct associated with that sport' or activity and that where injuries stem from `conduct that is a foreseeable, customary part' of the activity, the defendant `cannot be held liable for negligence because no duty is owed to protect the victim from that conduct.'”
3 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.