Johnstone v. Bushnell’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1993
2 district · 10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to use reasonable care to keep its premises in a safe and suitable condition so that the [business visitor] would not be unnecessarily or unreasonably exposed to danger, and if a hidden danger existed, known to the [landowner], but unknown and not reasonably apparent to the [business visitor], to give warning of it to the latter, who has a right to assume that the premises, aside from obvious dangers, were reasonably safe for the purpose for which he was upon them, and that proper precaution had been taken to make them so.”
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.