Basso v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 317 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. (1985), Robinson v. Government of Malaysia (2001)
50 federal appellate · 96 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“eliminat[ing] the distinction between commercial (business or public) visitors and social guests upon the premises, applying to both the single standard of reasonable care under the circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“maintain[ its] property in a reasonably safe condition,”
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.