Murrell v. Handley’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably 4 Cal. 4th 820 - Brown v. Poway Unified School District (1993), Anderson Ex Rel. Anderson v. Butler (1974)
3 federal appellate · 49 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 Pafford v. . Construction Co. · Comeau v. Comeau · Barnes v. Hotel O.Henry Corp. · Greenfield v. Miller · 126 Cal. App. 2d 328 - Ashley v. Jones
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facts in the DeVonde case were substantially different from those in the instant case. Among other things, the plaintiff Thompson, in the DeVonde case, was a paying guest of the defendant’s boarding house. The DeVonde case and others of similar import, cited by the appellant, are not controlling on the facts set forth in the record on this appeal. It is said in Anno.: 25 A.L.R. 2d 600 : ‘It has generally been held . . . that one who enters upon premises as a social guest will not escape the liabilities of that status merely by performing incidental services beneficial to the host in the course of the visit.’ Minor services performed by a guest for the host during the course of a visit will not change the status of the guest from a licensee to an invitee. Anno.: 25 A.L.R. 2d 607 ; O’Brien v. Shea, 326 Mass. 681 , 96 N.E. 2d 163 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The fact that a floor is waxed does not constitute evidence of negligence. Nor does the mere fact that one slips and falls on a floor constitute evidence of negligence. Res ipso loquitur does not apply to injuries resulting from slipping or falling on a waxed or oiled floor.” Barnes v. Hotel Corp., 229 N.C. 730, 731-32 , 51 S.E. 2d 180, 181 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.