Stamp v. Vail Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Watson v. Public Service Co. of Colorado (2008), Hunsaker, Jr. v. People (2015)
4 district · 33 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 Beebe v. Pierce · People v. Cross · Wesp v. Everson · People v. Hall · Graven v. Vail Associates, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bare spots, forest growth, rocks, stumps, streambeds, cliffs, extreme terrain, and trees, or other natural objects, and collisions with such natural objects.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“define the legal responsibilities of ski area operators and their agents and employees; to define the responsibilities of skiers using such ski areas; and to define the rights and liabilities existing between the skier and the ski area operator and between skiers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“By narrowly defining the claims that can be brought by injured skiers against ski area operators and by limiting the recovery in successful skiers' claims, the 1990 amendments broaden the [Act's] protection of ski area operators.”
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.