Weeks v. McNulty’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Parks v. Pavkovic (1985), Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, Curry First, Esq. And Melody Deshaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1987)
6 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule of law governing the liability of an innkeeper is that he is not an insurer of the person of his guest against injury, but his obligation is merely to exercise reasonable care that his guests may not he injured by anything happening through the innkeeper’s negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clancy v. Barker““It must be shown that the negligence of the innkeeper in this case was the proximate cause of the fire and the consequent injuries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baugh v. McCleskey
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.