Slusher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2025
10 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Baggett v. Bullitt · Rowland v. Christian · Kermarec v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he duty to maintain common areas retained under the landlord’s control in a safe condition “extends also to members of the tenant’s family, his employees, his invitees, his guests, and others on the land in the right of the tenant, since their presence is a part of the normal use of the premises for which the lessor holds them open.” (footnotes omitted) Pros-ser, supra § 63, at 406. The justification for extending the landlord’s duty to third persons lawfully upon the leased property was stated persuasively by the American Law Institute: “If the terms of the lease entitle the lessee to permit third persons to come upon the part of the land retained within the lessor’s control, it is immaterial whether they come as invitees of the lessee or as his licensees. It is the lessor’s business, as such, to afford his lessee facilities for receiving all persons whom he chooses to admit for any legitimate purpose. Therefore, a person who, as between himself and the lessee, is a licensee enters the land on a matter directly connected with the business of the lessor. He is, therefore, entitled to expect that the lessor will exercise reasonable care to discover and remedy any condition which makes his acceptance of the lessee’s license dangerous to him.” Restatement (Second) of Torts § 360, comment f., at 253 (1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flott v. Cates“[a]n act of omission is an offense only if the defendant has a statutory, common law, or contractual duty to perform the act and 'voluntarily' engages in the omission which constitutes the breach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Barber“do not appear as separate sections or even separate paragraphs of the statute. They should, accordingly, be construed together.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Barber
How this case has been treated — in progress
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