Lave v. Neumann’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Pottebaum v. Hinds (1984), 422 Pa. Super. 298 - Bell v. Irace (1993)
24 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 20 Cal. 3d 199 - Walters v. Sloan · Buchanan v. Prickett & Son, Inc. · Wax v. Co-Operative Refinery Ass'n · Nared v. School Dist. of Omaha in Cty. of Douglas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] fireman or individual fighting a fire on the premises of an owner or occupant is a bare licensee to whom the owner or occupant owes no greater duty than to refrain from injuring him by willful or wanton negligence or a designed injury, except in certain cases where there may be a duty to warn of hidden danger or peril known to the owner or occupant but unknown to or unobservable by the fireman in the exercise of ordinary care.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he extent of the risk which the volunteer is justified in assuming under the circumstances increases in proportion to the imminence of the danger and the value to be realized from meeting the danger and attempting to remove or eliminate the hazard; that is, the less the danger to the third party, the less the risk the volunteer is justified in taking.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The reasons which justify the application of the fireman's (sic) rule in cases where firemen (sic) were injured in fires involving personal property are the same reasons which support the rule in fires involving real property. A similar analogy cannot be made as to police officers injured while performing their duty not on private premises."”
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.