Gibson v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Scrapchansky v. Town of Plainfield (1993), 136 Pa. Commw. 629 - WURTH BY WURTH v. City of Philadelphia (1990)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Harrison v. Middlesex Water Company · Watson v. City of Omaha · Georgia Power Company v. McGruder · Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Krongold · 82 Cal. App. 3d 785 - Parish v. Lloyd
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.
“Recent years have seen a growing awareness of the need for additional recreational areas to serve the general public. The acquisition and operation of outdoor recreational facilities by governmental units is on the increase. However, large acreages of private land could add to the outdoor recreation resources available. ... [I]n those circumstances where private owners are willing to make their land available to members of the general public without charge, it is possible to argue that every reasonable encouragement should be given to them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“includes, but is not limited to, any of the following, or any combination thereof: hunting, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, pleasure driving, nature study, water skiing, water sports and viewing or enjoying historical, archaeological, scenic, or scientific sites.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he stated goal of the Recreational Use Statutes is `to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to the public for recreational purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such purposes.'”
2 later decisions 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.