De Wolf v. . Ford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 federal appellate · 58 state decisions

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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he business of an innkeeper is of a quasi public character, invested with many privileges, and burdened with correspondingly great responsibilities .... The innkeeper holds himself out as able and willing to entertain guests for hire .... One of the things which a guest for hire at a public inn has the right to insist upon is respectful and decent treatment at the hands of the innkeeper and his servants. That is an essential part of the contract whether it is express or implied. This right of the guest necessarily implies an obligation on the part of the innkeeper that neither he nor his servants will abuse or insult the guest, or indulge in any conduct or speech that may unnecessarily bring upon him physical discomfort or distress of mind.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McKee v. Sheraton-Russell, Inc. · Sheely v. MRI Radiology Network, P.A.

2. ““There may doubtless be many conditions under which a guest at an inn may be assaulted or insulted by another guest or by an outsider without subjecting the innkeeper to liability, but if it ever was thought to be the law that an innkeeper and his servants have the right to willfully assault, abuse or maltreat a :guest, we think the time has arrived when it may very properly and safely be changed to accord with a more .modern conception of the relation of innkeeper and guest.” (p. 406.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lehnen v. E. J. Hines & Co.