Des Isles v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
225 F.2d 235 · 1955
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Cobb v. Lewis (1974), Hadjipateras v. Pacifica, S. A. (1961)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Des Isles v. Evans · Shannon v. United States · Pickett v. City of Jacksonville · Clyde Bar, Inc. v. McClamma
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“were not adopted to set traps and pitfalls by way of technicalities for unwary litigants,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Campbell · Cobb v. Lewis““The owner or operator of a public place of amusement or entertainment is not the insurer of the safety of his patrons, but owes to them only the duty of reasonable care. He is bound to exercise only the degree of care that would be expected of an ordinarily careful and prudent person in his position, and his duty is fulfilled when he makes the place as little dangerous as such a place can reasonably be made, having regard to the contrivances necessarily used in conducting such a place.””
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.