Wolfson v. Chelist’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably State v. Butler (1958), Peterson v. Balach (1972)
32 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 Glaser v. Rothschild · Hull Ex Rel. Hull v. Gillioz · Porchey v. Kelling · Ahnefeld v. Wabash Railroad · Boyer v. Guidicy Marble, Terrazzo & Tile 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course a social gnest is an invitee to a host’s home in the sense that he has been asked to share for a time the hospitality of the home and so become in a way quite as a member of the host’s family for a while, that is, he is an invitee in the ordinary social sense. The word ‘invitation’ here has been a source of difficulty because of an apparent incongruity in terminology inasmuch as the ‘invited’ social gnest is held to he not an invitee hut a licensee. We have here an invitee who is not an invitee. The incongruity, only apparent, disappears, however, when it is understood it has been thought there must he something more than the mere fact of an invitation to give the entrant upon another’s property the status of an invitee in a legal sense. Having an invitation, we are concerned with what kind of an invitation it is. What are its terms? To what place are we invited? For what purpose are we asked to come there? In our case the invitation was a social one. The guest was invited to a private home. The invitation was not tendered with any material benefit motive. In such a case it would seem a guest should not expect that precautions have been taken.for his safety that should he taken by the inviter-proprietor of a store to protect the invitee-customer from halm. The invitation was not extended to the public generally or to some undefined portion of the public from which invitation, in the shown circumstances of a case, entrants might reasonably ex pect precautions have b”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the duty to take ordinary care to prevent [the invitee's] injury is at onee raised and for the breach of that duty an action lies”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the owner invites the use of his premises for purposes connected with his own benefit, pleasure and convemence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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