Peters v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012 · most notably United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Britt (1922), Reynolds v. Willson (1958)
7 federal appellate · 137 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 City of Pekin v. McMahon · Barrett v. Southern Pacific Co. · Hargreaves v. Deacon · Bransom's adm'r v. Labrot · Schmidt v. Bauer
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The owner of a thing dangerous and attractive .to children is not always and universally liable for an injury to a child tempted by the attraction. His liability bears a relation to the character of the thing, whether natural and common, or artificial and uncommon, to the comparative ease or difficulty of preventing the danger without destroying or impairing the usefulness of the thing, and, in short, to the reasonableness and propriety of his- own conduct, in' view of all surrounding circumstances and conditions. As to common dangers existing in the order of nature, it is the duty of parents to guard and warn their children, and, failing to do so, they should not expect to hold others responsible for their own want of care. But, with respect to dangers specially created by the act of the owner, novel in character, attractive and dangerous to children, easily guarded and rendered safe, the rule is, as it ought to be, different.”, (p. 356.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ The rule of the Turntable Oases is an exception to the general principle that the owner of land is under no legal duty to keep it in a safe condition for others than those whom he invites there, and that trespassers take the risk of injuries from ordinary visible causes; and it should not be carried beyond the class of cases to which it has been applied.””
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.