Glaze v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Smith v. Bernfeld (1961), Honolulu Ltd. v. Cain (1966)
5 federal appellate · 32 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 Yaniger v. Calvert Bldg. & Construction Co. · Lindenberg v. Needles · State Ex Rel. Alston v. Baltimore Fidelity Warehouse Co. · Waddel's Administrator v. Brashear · Pinehurst Co. v. Phelps
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absence of reason to believe that the condition ... [would] be discovered by the patron or the risk realized by him,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahon · Honolulu Ltd. v. Cain“[t]here was nothing in its [the pavilion's] arrangement or facilities to suggest that it was to be used in connection with swimming or diving. There were no diving boards, platform or other things to facilitate diving or the entering of the water in any manner....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failed to warn patrons of hidden perils known to him but unknown to and, in the exercise of due care, undiscoverable by, the appellant, and that by the erection of a misleading sign, in effect, he invited the appellant to dive to disaster as and where he did.”
2 later decisions 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.