Steinmeyer v. McPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Little v. Butner (1960), Blackburn v. Colvin (1963)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 Thogmartin v. Koppel · Bessette v. Ernsting · Toomey v. Wichison Industrial Gas 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 33 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.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"... The proprietor of a trade or business is not an absolute insurer of the safety of customers. He is, however, liable for failure to maintain his premises in a reasonably safe condition for the protection of customers unless they know, or from facts they should know, of the possessor's activities and of the risk involved therein ..." (p. 278.) (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weaver v. Laundon
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.