Lyons v. Lich’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1969
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 S. S. Kresge Co. v. Fader · Roman v. King · Robinson v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · Langley v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · Gallagher v. Murphy
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘the owner of an apartment house has the duty toward the occupants of the apartment house and guests of said occupants to exercise ordinary care for their protection and to see that the portion of the premises over which the owner retains control is in a reasonably safe condition of repair, but such apartment house owner is not an insurer against all forms of accidents that may happen to any who come on such premises.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pritchard v. Terrill
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.