White v. Mugar’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Deagle v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (1961), Gallagher v. STOP & STOP, INC. (1955)
58 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 Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Frost v. McCarthy · Norton v. Hudner · Hudson v. F. W. Woodworth Co. · Mascary v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The defendant owed to customers a duty to keep the premises reasonably safe for their use. He, however, is not an insurer of safety where without action for which he is responsible, a dangerous condition arises the law allows him reasonable opportunity to become informed of the danger and to take measures to remedy it. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.