5 Utah 2d 174 - Tempest v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Gray F. Madison, Sr., and Elizabeth B. Madison, Husband and Wife, Plaintiffs v. Deseret Livestock Company, a Utah Corporation (1978), Eaton v. McLain (1994)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Hertz v. Advertiser Co. · Biggs v. Bear · Aragona v. Parrella · Gregory v. Loder
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knows of the condition and realizes that it involves an unreasonable risk. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Her hostess called out there was a light on in the bathroom. Appellant saw a light in a room in a hall running off the utility room but when she looked in through the door of that room she saw it was a den or a bedroom and decided that a closed door a few steps beyond the den must be the bathroom and proceeded thereto, opened it and stepped in, intending to turn on a light. The stairway was constructed without a landing and the door opened inwardly, and as she stepped in she fell down the stairs ... As she never saw the bathroom, appellant does not know whether it was lighted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Appellant had been in respondents’ home on a few prior occasions. Although she was not well acquainted with the home, when she started for the bathroom she did not inquire for directions but announced she was going there and was told the light was on in that room. Under such circumstances it would be unreasonable to expect the hosts to anticipate that their guest would open a door not connected with and some distance from the bathroom and step into an unlighted or dark area.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eaton v. McLain
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.