Beatty v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Brown v. Alliance Real Estate Group (1999), Nicholson v. Tacker (1973)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 City of Tulsa v. Harman · Gypsy Oil Co. v. Ginn · Pruitt v. Timme · Clinkscales v. Mundkoski · Lowden v. Friddle
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the duty to keep [the] premises reasonably safe for invitees applies only to defects or conditions which are in the nature of hidden dangers, traps, snares, pitfalls, and the like, in that [they] are not known to the invitee and would not be observed by him in the exercise of ordinary care.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nicholson v. Tacker“applies to defects or conditions which are in the nature of hidden dangers, traps, snares, pitfalls, and the like which are not known to the invitee and would not be observed by him in the exercise of ordinary care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact, and shall, at all times, be left to the jury.” [Emphasis ours.]”
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.