Weekes v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2003
9 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 Genell, Inc. v. Flynn · Carlisle v. J. Weingarten, Inc. · City of Greenville v. Pitts · Blossom Oil & Cotton Co. v. Poteet · Bass v. Cummings
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In 65 C.J.S. Negligence § 63(136), pp. 920, 923, it is said that a host is not liable to his social guest for failure to exercise ordinary care. The rule is stated as follows: ‘As a licensee on the host’s premises, the guest generally takes the premises as he finds them, in so far as any alleged defective condition thereof is concerned, and assumes the ordinary risks or dangers incident to the condition of the premises. The host is not required to inspect the premises to discover defects or to maintain the premises in a safe condition for his guest. The guest is expected to take the premises as the host uses them and may not expect that they will be prepared for his reception or that precautions will be taken for his safety in any manner in which the host did not prepare or take precautions for his own safety or the safety of members of his family, or, as sometimes expressed, where one visits the private home of another as a social guest the owner is bound to take the same care of him that the owner takes of himself and other members of his family, and no more. * * * * * * The host is under a duty to refrain from inflicting on the guest willful or wanton injury, and some cases indicate that this is the extent of the host’s duty or deny recovery in the absence of sufficient proof of willfulness or wantonness. In some jurisdictions the host must refrain from gross, as distinguished from ordinary, negligence * * * Although there is some contrary authority, in many jurisdictions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is well settled in this State that if the person injured was on the premises as a licensee, the duty that the proprietor or licensor owed him was not to injure him by willful, wanton or gross negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. Medley
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.