Tate v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2025
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Rowland v. Christian · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · Sidle v. Humphrey · Knight v. Moore · Walker v. Memorial Hospital
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The knowledge of the condition removes the sting of unreasonableness from any danger that lies in it, and obviousness may be relied on to supply knowledge. Hence the obvious character of the condition is incompatible with negligence in maintaining it. If the plaintiff happens to be hurt by the condition, he is barred from recovery by lack of defendants' negligence toward him, no matter how careful plaintiff himself may have been.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Breeden v. Baughan“A possessor of land is subject to liability for physical harm caused to his invitees by a condition on the land if, but only if, he. . . (b) should expect that they will not discover or realize the danger, or will fail to protect themselves against it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Breeden v. Baughan
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.