Collins v. Martella’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.3d 1 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 20 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Perrine v. Kennecott Mining Corp. (1996), Coan v. New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (2010)
5 federal appellate · 20 district · 9 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc. · Oliver v. Digital Equipment Corp. · Donovan v. Agnew · Finn v. Consolidated Rail Corp.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n owner, occupant, or lessor of land . . . who without charge permits any person to use land for recreational purposes . . . shall not be liable for personal injury or property damage. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“declined on this basis to apply RSA 508:14, I, to claims brought on behalf of two men who drowned while swimming and canoeing at the base of a dam.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“consciously disregarded a probability that someone would be injured by diving from the dock”
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.