State v. Tennison’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. (1985), Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife v. Miranda (2004)
6 federal appellate · 119 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 Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis · Carlisle v. J. Weingarten, Inc. · Gonzalez v. Broussard Ex Rel. Broussard · Olivier v. Snowden · McKethan v. McKethan
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in this State that if the person injured was on the premises as a licensee, the duty that the proprietor or licensor owed him was not to injure him by willful, wanton or gross negligence .... An exception to the general rule is that when the licensor has knowledge of a dangerous condition, and the licensee does not, a duty is owed on the part of the licensor to either warn the licensee or to make the condition reasonably safe.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) As to premise defects, the unit of government shall owe to any claimant only the duty owed by private persons to a licensee on private property, unless payment has been made by the claimant for the use of the premises. Provided, however, that the limitation of duty contained in this subsection shall not apply to the duty to warn of special defects such as excavations or obstructions on highways, roads or streets, nor shall it apply to any such duty to warn of the absence, condition or malfunction of traffic signs, signals or warning devices as is required in Section 14(12) hereof. (Italics are added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Each unit of government shall be liable for ... death or personal injuries so caused from some condition or some use of tangible property, real or personal, under circumstances where such unit of government, if a private person, would be liable in accordance with the law of this state. Such liability is subject to the exceptions contained herein . . . ” (Emphasis added.)”
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.