Leslie v. Nitz’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Turner v. Lotts (1992), Amusement Slides Corp. v. Lehmann (1977)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Carwile v. Richmond Newspapers, Inc. · Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority v. Laburnum Construction Corp. · Davis v. Sykes · Paytan v. Rowland · Landes v. Arehart
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rule 3:18] was adopted to provide trial courts with authority to bring litigation to an end at an early stage ... but it does not substitute a new method of trial where an issue of fact exists.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he doctrine of assumption of risk rests on two premises: (1) that the nature and extent of the risk are fully appreciated; and (2) that it is voluntarily incurred.”
1 later decision 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.