Bessette v. Ernsting’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Hendrix v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (1969), Graham v. Loper Electric Co. (1964)
2 district · 26 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 Robinson v. Short · Kurre v. Graham Ship By Truck Co. · Toomey v. Wichison Industrial Gas Co. · Bass v. Hunt · Miller v. Kansas City Public Service Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A licensee is a person who is privileged to enter or remain upon land by virtue of the possessor's consent, whether given by invitation or permission. "Ordinarily the only duty an owner or occupant of premises owes to a mere licensee is the duty to refrain from willfully, intentionally or recklessly injuring him." (Syl. ¶¶ 3, 4.) (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A licensee is a person who is privileged to enter or remain upon land by virtue of the possessor’s consent, whether given by invitation or permission. “A business visitor is a person who is invited or permitted to enter or remain on land in the possession of another for a purpose directly or indirectly connected with business dealings between them.” (Syl. ¶¶ 1, 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.