Bland v. Davison County’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2025
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company · Lovell v. Oahe Electric Cooperative · 152 N.J. Super. 228 - Meta v. TOWNSHIP OF CHERRY HILL AND COUNTY OF CAMDEN · Cuppy v. Bunch · Myers v. Lennox Co-Op. Ass'n
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot infer from the statutes that County has permission to idly stand by while hazards knowingly exist on its roads.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of an accumulation of snow or ice over a long period of time on a highway may present a hazard to motorists and creates a jury question as to the ordinary and reasonable maintenance provided by County. " (Emphasis added). Obviously, road maintenance is not within a "layman's breadth of knowledge,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e must determine if a relationship exists between the parties such that the law will impose upon the defendant a legal obligation of reasonable conduct for the benefit of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision 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.