Lopez v. Ski Apache Resort’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2010
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Scott v. Rizzo · State v. Fish · Schear v. Board of County Commissioners · Meistrich v. Casino Arena Attractions, Inc. · General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Anaya
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every ski operator shall have the following duties with respect to the operation of a siding area: * * * to mark conspicuously the top or entrance to each slope, trail or area with the appropriate symbol for its relative degree' of difficulty; and those slopes, trails or areas marked at the top or entrance with the appropriate symbols as established or approved by the national ski area associar tion ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hether a duty exists is generally a question of law for the court to determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hether a duty [under the Act] has been breached is a question of fact,”
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.