Davis v. Gabriel’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. · Path-Science Laboratories, Inc. v. Greene County Hospital · Melnick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Djespite the obviousness of the danger, a jury could find that a possessor of land breached a duty to invitees if (1) the possessor could have reasonably foreseen that invitees exercising due care would be injured by the condition of the land and (2) that risk made it unreasonable for the possessor not to take certain precautions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diaz v. McMahon
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.