Taylor v. Olsen’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2024
2 district · 17 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.
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.
“Trees, the rule stated in Subsection (2) is an exception which has developed as to trees near a public highway. It requires .no more than reasonable care on the part of the possessor of the land to prevent an unreasonable risk of harm to those in the highway, arising from the condition of the trees. In an urban area, where traffic is relatively frequent, land is less heavily wooded, and acreage is small, reasonable care for the protection of travelers on the highway may require the possessor to inspect all trees which may be in such dangerous condition as to endanger travelers. It will at least require him to take reasonable steps to prevent harm when he is in fact aware of the dangerous condition of the tree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marrero v. Gerard“is to be decided as a question of fact upon the circumstances of the individual case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable care to prevent an unreasonable risk of harm”
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.