Lang v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1956
5 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 McGinley v. Alliance Trust Co. · Shute v. Bills · State v. Howell · Quinn v. Perham · Moynihan v. Allyn
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if an ordinarily careful and prudent person in her (his) situation would have concluded that in the exercise of due care she (he) could ascend the steps in safety, she (he) had a right to rely on the implied assurance of the landlords that they were reasonably safe for that particular use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bartlett v. Taylor
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.