Gray v. Kircher’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2003
16 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 Rowland v. Christian · Dillon v. Legg · 15 Cal. 3d 40 - Weirum v. RKO General, Inc. · 30 Cal. 3d 721 - Marina Point, Ltd. v. Wolfson · 38 Cal. 3d 112 - Isaacs v. Huntington Memorial Hospital
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court noted the absence of evidence of any history of violence or assaultive behavior on the part of Meacham, a lack of evidence that [the hotel owner] or anyone else was aware that Meacham possessed a gun, the absence of evidence that [the owner] knew or should have known of any risk to other hotel guests occasioned by Meacham's presence, and a lack of evidence that [the owner] failed to exercise reasonable care to protect [the plaintiff] or other residents.... In short, Meacham's conduct was not reasonably foreseeable. "Applying the Rowland factors further, we note that [the owners] conduct was without moral blame, and the imposition of a duty to protect against this sort of criminal conduct would place `an extremely onerous burden' on both [the owner] and the community.... "[Plaintiffs] suggestion that [the owner] should have expelled or at least moved Meacham to another part of the hotel because of his alleged `anti-gay' philosophy is untenable. Hotel owners cannot classify and isolate their guests according to their perceived social or political philosophies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Applying the Rowland factors further, we note that [the owners] conduct was without moral blame, and the imposition of a duty to protect against this sort of criminal conduct would place `an extremely onerous burden' on both [the owner] and the community....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.