46 Wash. 2d 52 - Dotson v. Haddock’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Davies v. McDowell National Bank (1962), Wilson v. Bogert (1959)
26 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 Mitchell v. Legarsky · Cosgrave v. Malstrom · Gasch v. Rounds · Kinsman v. Barton Company · Buttnick v. J. & M., Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before a person may attain the status of an invitee, it must be shown that the business or purpose for which the visitor comes upon the premises is of material or pecuniary benefit, actual or potential, to the owner or occupier of the premises.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ne who goes upon the premises of another, either without any invitation, express or implied, or else for some purpose not connected with the business conducted on the land, but goes nevertheless with the permission or at the toleration of the owner”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“real or supposed mutuality of interest in the subject to which the visitor's business or purpose relates,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Katzer
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.