Hiller v. Wiley’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1982
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Looney v. McLean · Roman v. King · Rich v. Swalm · Gibson v. Hoppman · McDonald v. Wilmut Gas & Oil 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he testimony ... discloses that the property occupied by the appellee as a tenant was a double house; that is, part thereof was leased to another tenant; but there was a common approach, and a single set of front steps available for use by all tenants and by the landlord. Under these circumstances it is clear that the landlord, not only for convenience but of necessity, retained control over, and hence responsibility for the reasonable upkeep of, the steps, and is liable for a failure to use reasonable care to keep them reasonably safe. ( 192 Miss. at 492 , 6 So.2d at 317 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cappaert v. Junker
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.